Umfang:
Online-Ressource (498 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781107347663
Inhalt:
The first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the late sixteenth century to abolition in 1888
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates and Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Envisioning Slave Portraiture; A Tale of Erasure; Portraiture and the Scopic Dynamics of Plantation Slavery; Portraits and Types, Once Again; A Critical Field on Slavery, Race, and Visuality; On Figuring Slave Portraiture; Mapping the Book; Notes; Part I Visibility and Invisibility; One Slavery and the Possibilities of Portraiture; Notes; Two Subjectivity and Slavery in Portraiture; Notes; Three Looking for Scipio Moorhead; Notes
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Part II Slave Portraiture, Colonialism, and Modern Imperial CultureFour Three Gentlemen from Esmeraldas; Genesis; The Making of the Portrait; Conclusion; Bibliography of Archival Sources; Notes; Five Metamorphoses of the Self in Early-Modern Spain; Notes; Six Of Sailors and Slaves; Notes; Seven Between Violence and Redemption; Preliminaries: On the Troubles of a Religious Spectacle; The Slave Head: Between Performance and Portraiture; Slave Insubordinations and Seigniorial Foundations; A Tale of Divinely Ordained Hierarchies; Redemption and Rationality; The Legend of the Slave and the Count
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On Reuniting the Head and the BodyAbbreviations; Notes; Part III Subjects to Scientific and Ethnographic Knowledge; Eight Albert Eckhout's African Woman and Child (1641); Albert Eckhout's Ethnographic Portrait Series; Ethnographic Imagery and the Ethnographic Portrait; Interpreting Eckhout's Ethnographic Series; Eckhout's African Woman and Child; New World Slaves?; Eckhout's Sources; A Natural Pair?; Reinterpreting Eckhout's Ethnographic Series; Eckhout's Drawing of a Woman of African Ancestry in Brazil; Notes; Nine Embodying African Knowledge in Colonial Surinam; Notes
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Ten Exquisite Empty ShellsIt Was a Very Good Year; "Le plus beau nègre ..."; The Ethnographic Turn; Colorful (Im)Personalities: Evacuation and the Polychromatics of Race; "... that which has been robbed"; Notes; Part IV Facing Abolition; Eleven Who Is the Subject?; The Painting; The Painter and the Sitter; Critical Readings; moi libre aussi; Black Venus; Republican Womanhood in French Portraiture; Deformation and Signature; Classicism and Slavery; The Woman of Guadeloupe; Notes; Twelve The Many Faces of Toussaint Louverture; Notes; Thirteen Cinqué; The Amistad Affair
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Jocelyn's Portrait MakingThe Heroic Portrait; The Portrait Commission; An Emblematic Portrait; Affinity with Allston; Cinqué: Ecce Homo; The Meaning of Landscape; Historical Affiliations; Political Agendas; Notes; Fourteen The Intrepid Mariner Simão; The Tragedy of the Pernambucana; Portraits of a Freeborn Black Hero in Brazilian Slave Society; The Portrait(s) of the Intrepid Mariner; Conclusions; Notes; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107345164
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107004399
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
