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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
Edited By Agnes Lugo
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Description for Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
paperback. The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888. Editor(s): Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes I.; Rosenthal, Angela. Num Pages: 159 b/w illus. 11 colour illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: AGHF; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, ... Read more
Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107533752
SKU
V9781107533752
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99-8
About Edited By Agnes Lugo
Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Identidades Imaginadas: Biografía y Nacionalidad en el Horizonte de la Guerra and co-editor of Herencia: The Anthology of US Hispanic Writing, En Otra Voz: Antología de la Literatura Hispana de los Estados Unidos and Recovering the US ... Read more
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