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Author:   Professor Geoff Quilley ,  Kay Dian Kriz
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780719060069

ISBN 10:   0719060060
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 May 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction: visual culture and the Atlantic world, 1660-1830, Geoff Quilley and Kay Dian Kriz. Identifying the Atlantic world - textuality, visuality and hybridity: envisioning the colonial body - the fair, the carnivalesque and the grotesque, Keith Sandiford; colonial exchanges - visualizing racial ideology and labour in Britain and the West Indies, Roxann Wheeler; from Canassatego to Outalissi - making sense of the Native American in 18th-century culture, Stephanie Pratt. Visualizing slavery: curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's Voyage to Jamaica , Kay Dian Kriz; pastoral plantations - the slave trade and the representation of British colonial landscape in the late-18th century, Geoff Quilley; John Gabriel Stedman, William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi and empathetic pornography in the Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam , Marcus Woods. Revolutionizing Atlantic identities: food chains - French Abolitionism and human consumption (1787-1819), Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby; The Oath of the Ancestors by Lethiere le mul tre - celebrating the Black/Mulatto alliance in Haiti's struggle for independence, Helen Weston.

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This is an wonderfully rich collection of carefully argued, deeply knowledgable, and deftly executed essays. --Beth Tobin, Arizona State University

This is an wonderfully rich collection of carefully argued, deeply knowledgable, and deftly executed essays. --Beth Tobin, Arizona State University<br>

"""This is an wonderfully rich collection of carefully argued, deeply knowledgable, and deftly executed essays.""--Beth Tobin, Arizona State University"

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