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The illustrated slave : empathy, graphic narrative, and the visual culture of the transatlantic abolition movement, 1800-1852
- Title
- The illustrated slave : empathy, graphic narrative, and the visual culture of the transatlantic abolition movement, 1800-1852 / Martha J. Cutter.
- Author
- Cutter, Martha J.
- Publication
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- " ... Analyzes ... works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement"--
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Enslaved persons > United States > Illustrations
- Slavery > United States > Illustrations
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Antislavery movements in literature
- American literature
- American literature > African American authors
- Slavery
- Enslaved persons
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Illustrated works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-1146
- ISBN
- 9780820351162
- 0820351164
- 9780820351155 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016055420
- OCLC
- 965754178
- Author
- Cutter, Martha J., author.
- Title
- The illustrated slave : empathy, graphic narrative, and the visual culture of the transatlantic abolition movement, 1800-1852 / Martha J. Cutter.
- Publisher
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-1146