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Black Prometheus : race and radicalism in the age of Atlantic slavery
- Title
- Black Prometheus : race and radicalism in the age of Atlantic slavery / Jared Hickman.
- Author
- Hickman, Jared
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- x, 528 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subject
- Prometheus (Greek deity)
- Prometheus (Greek deity) > In literature
- Shāmil, Imām, 1798?-1871
- Mythology, Greek, in literature
- Mythology, Classical, in literature
- Slavery > Atlantic Ocean Region > History
- Antislavery movements in literature
- Political theology
- Literature
- Slavery
- Caucasus > History > Uprising, 1785
- Atlantic Ocean Region
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-507) and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Historical conditions and contexts of Black Prometheanism. Globalization and the gods : a theory of race and -- or as -- modernity -- The terms of Prometheus's liberation : romanticism, slavery, and the Titan's triumph -- Part II: Prometheus of Africa. Africa versus the absolute : idealism and its others -- The Afro-Promethean "science of the stars" : toward a new metahistory of African survivals -- Part III: Prometheus of Caucasus. Rebinding Prometheus to the Caucasus : idealism's other solution -- Iman Shamil, or the modern Prometheus of Caucasus -- Part IV: A literary history of slave rebellion. Rebellious fictions : Black Prometheus and the undoing of novelistic form -- Byronic abolitionism.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1906
- ISBN
- 9780190272586 (cloth)
- 0190272589 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2015033375
- OCLC
- 922572343
- Author
- Hickman, Jared, author.
- Title
- Black Prometheus : race and radicalism in the age of Atlantic slavery / Jared Hickman.
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-507) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1906