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Grateful Slave

Name: Grateful Slave
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521188661
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The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture

Szerző: George Boulukos

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Cambridge University Press

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The figure of the grateful slave, devoted to his or her master in thanks for kind treatment, is ubiq...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

George Boulukos

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2012

oldal

290

EAN

9780521188661

ISBN

0521188660

Enbook ID

02025221

Kiadó

Cambridge University Press

Súly

442

Méretek

153 x 229 x 17

Teljes leírás

The figure of the grateful slave, devoted to his or her master in thanks for kind treatment, is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century writing from Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack (1722) to Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro' (1804). Yet this important trope, linked with discourses that tried to justify racial oppression, slavery and colonialism, has been overlooked in eighteenth-century literary research. Challenging previous accounts of the relationship between sentiment and slavery, in this 2008 book George Boulukos shows how the image of the grateful slave contributed to colonial practices of white supremacy in the later eighteenth century. Seemingly sympathetic to slaves, the trope actually undermines their cause and denies their humanity by showing African slaves as willingly accepting their condition. Taking in literary sources as well as texts on colonialism and slavery, Boulukos offers a fresh account of the development of racial difference, and of its transatlantic dissemination, in the eighteenth-century English-speaking world.