Literature, art and slavery : ekphrastic visions / Carl Plasa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plasa, Carl, 1959- author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.

Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and literature.

Slavery in literature.

Slavery in art.

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since around 2000, there has been a noticeable upsurge in critical work on the visual archive of Atlantic slavery, resulting in a host of important studies. While most of these contributions are weighted towards images created during the era of slavery itself, some critics have adopted a more historically far-reaching approach, exploring the ways in which such images live on beyond the original context of their production, circulation and consumption, returning imaginatively in different forms at different times and in different places. This book shares the fascination with the afterlives which such visual materials have enjoyed, but places the accent on how that posterity has evolved in the realms of literature, especially poetry. It focuses on transactions between texts written between the mid-1990s and 2020 and images of slavery that belong to British, American and (in one case) French traditions, as produced between c. 1779 and 1939.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Introduction: Reframing Ekphrasis

1. Adding to the Picture: New Perspectives on David Dabydeen's 'Turner'

2. Looking beyond 'Turner': William B. Patrick's 'The Slave Ship'

3. 'Slave-Ships on Fantastic Seas': The Art of Abolition

4. The Secret Afterlives of Dido Elizabeth Belle

5. African-American Ekphrasis and the 'Peculiar Institution'

6. Icon-versations: F. Douglas Brown, Jacob Lawrence and Frederick Douglass

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-8356-9

0-7486-8355-0

OCLC:

1408682131