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Author:

Gikandi, Simon.

Title:

Slavery and the culture of taste / Simon Gikandi.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Slavery in literature.
Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-352) and index.

Contents:

Overture : sensibility in the age of slavery -- Intersections : taste, slavery, and the modern self -- Unspeakable events : slavery and white self-fashioning -- Close encounters : taste and the taint of slavery -- "Popping sorrow" : loss and the transformation of servitude -- The ontology of play : mimicry and the counterculture of taste.

ISBN:

0691140669 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780691140667 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)704907821

LCCN:

2011007380

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)