Literature, Art and Slavery: Ekphrastic Visions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780748683574)

Since around 2000, there has been a noticeable upsurge in critical work on the visual archive of Atlantic slavery, resulting in a host of important studies. While most of these contributions are weighted towards images created during the era of slavery itself, some critics have adopted a more historically far-reaching approach, exploring the ways in which such images live on beyond the original context of their production, circulation and consumption, returning imaginatively in different forms at different times and in different places. This book shares the fascination with the afterlives which such visual materials have enjoyed, but places the accent on how that posterity has evolved in the realms of literature, especially poetry. It focuses on transactions between texts written between the mid-1990s and 2020 and images of slavery that belong to British, American and (in one case) French traditions, as produced between c. 1779 and 1939.

Author: Carl Plasa
ISBN-10: 0748683577
ISBN-13: 9780748683574
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2025
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d