The illustrated slave : empathy, graphic narrative, and the visual culture of the transatlantic abolition movement, 1800-1852 / Martha J. Cutter.

Author
Cutter, Martha J. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
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Summary note
" ... Analyzes ... works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 14, 2017).
Contents
  • Visualizing slavery and slave torture
  • Precursors: picturing the story of slavery in broadsides, pamphlets, and early illustrated graphic works about slavery, 1793-1812
  • "These loathsome pictures shall be published": reconfigurations of the optical regime of transatlantic slavery in Amelia Opie's The black man's lament (1826) and George Bourne's Picture of slavery in the United States of America (1834)
  • Entering and exiting the sensorium of slave torture: a narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery (1837, 1838) and the visual culture of the slave's body in the transatlantic abolition movement
  • Structuring a new abolitionist reading of masculinity and femininity: the graphic narrative systems of Lydia Maria Child's Joanna (1838) and Henry Bibb's Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself (1849)
  • After Tom: illustrated books, panoramas, and the staging of the African American enslaved body in Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) and the performance work of Henry Box Brown (1849-1875)
  • The end of empathy, or slavery revisited via twentieth- and twenty-first-century artworks
  • Hierarchical and parallel empathy.
ISBN
  • 9780820351155 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0820351156 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
1000521551
Other standard number
  • 40027389317
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