Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index.
Contents:
Transfigurations and Mistranslations of Black Freedom Culture in Narratives of the Colonial Era -- Jean François, the Spanish Constitutional Debates and the Monkey of Seville -- Solitude : Translating the Abject into Agent -- The Task of Transfiguration.
Summary:
"The Colonial Art of Demonizing Others examines European mistranslations and misrepresentations of black freedom dreams and self-activity as monstrous in the period of modern imperial consolidation -roughly from 1750 to 1848"-- Provided by publisher.
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