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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:

The University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xviii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm

Subject:

Slaves--United States--Illustrations.
Slavery--United States--Illustrations.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Slavery.
Slavery in literature.
Slaves.
United States.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Illustrated works.

Notes:

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.

Summary:

" ... Analyzes ... works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0820351164
9780820351162

OCLC:

(OCoLC)965754178

LCCN:

2016055420

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)