Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004520929)

Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature. Pia Wiegmink draws attention to locales, authors, and webs of entanglement between texts, ideas, and people. Perceived through the lens of gender and transnationalism, American antislavery literature emerges as a body of writing that presents profoundly reconfigured literary imaginations of freedom and equality in the United States prior to the Civil War.

Author: Pia Wiegmink
ISBN-10: 9004520929
ISBN-13: 9789004520929
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2022
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2023