The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852 - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820358758ISBN-10:820358754UPC:9780820358758Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, DesignBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Slavery, Graphic ArtsBook Topic:IllustrationSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCGGYKYQ2D
The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852
From the 1787 Wedgwood antislavery medallion featuring the image of an enchained and pleading black body to Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012) and Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave (2013), slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of the transatlantic world. Scholars have examined various aspects of the visual culture that was slavery, including...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820358758ISBN-10:820358754UPC:9780820358758Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social Science, DesignBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Slavery, Graphic ArtsBook Topic:IllustrationSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCGGYKYQ2D
MARTHA J. CUTTER is a professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity and Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930.
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