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Slavery and the Politics of Place
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Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107079342
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.10.2014
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Elizabeth A Bohls
Gewicht:
544 g
Format:
236x154x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Elizabeth A. Bohls, Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon, is author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (Cambridge, 1995), Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies (2013) and co-editor with Ian Duncan of Travel Writing, 1700-1830 (2005).
This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.
Introduction: captive spaces; 1. The planter picturesque; 2. Stedman's Tropics: the mercenary as naturalist; 3. Colonial history and Atlantic geography; 4. Equiano's politics of place: from roots to routes; 5. At home with the 'Blackies': Janet Schaw and Maria Nugent; 6. A long way from home: the history of Mary Prince; Bibliography.