Literature, Art and Slavery : Ekphrastic Visions (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures)

Plasa, Carl

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780748683574
• DDC分類 809.933552

Full Description

Since around 2000, there has been a noticeable upsurge in critical work on the visual archive of Atlantic slavery, resulting in a host of important studies. While most of these contributions are weighted towards images created during the era of slavery itself, some critics have adopted a more historically far-reaching approach, exploring the ways in which such images live on beyond the original context of their production, circulation and consumption, returning imaginatively in different forms at different times and in different places. This book shares the fascination with the afterlives which such visual materials have enjoyed, but places the accent on how that posterity has evolved in the realms of literature, especially poetry. It focuses on transactions between texts written between the mid-1990s and 2020 and images of slavery that belong to British, American and (in one case) French traditions, as produced between c. 1779 and 1939.

Contents

List of Figures

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Reframing Ekphrasis

1. Adding to the Picture: New Perspectives on David Dabydeen's 'Turner'

2. Looking beyond 'Turner': William B. Patrick's 'The Slave Ship'

3. 'Slave-Ships on Fantastic Seas': The Art of Abolition

4. The Secret Afterlives of Dido Elizabeth Belle

5. African-American Ekphrasis and the 'Peculiar Institution'

6. Icon-versations: F. Douglas Brown, Jacob Lawrence and Frederick Douglass

Bibliography

Index