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Date: 13-Jan-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject:  


Title: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery
Subtitle: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume I: Slavery, literature
and the emotions
Series Title: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages
XXXVI
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/chlel.36

Editor(s): Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard, Karen-Margrethe
Simonsen

eBook: ISBN: 9789027246363 Pages: 358 Price: Europe EURO 153.00
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Abstract:

The first volume of <i>A Comparative Literary History of Modern
Slavery</i> explores literary representations of enslavement with a
focus on the emotions. The contributors consider how the diverse
emotions generated by slavery have been represented over a historical
period stretching from the 16th century to the present and across
regions, languages, media and genres. The seventeen chapters explore
different framings of emotional life in terms of ‘sentiments’ and
‘affects’ and consider how emotions intersect with literary registers
and movements such as melodrama and realism. They also examine how
writers, including some formerly enslaved people, sought to activate
the feelings of readers, notably in the context of abolitionism. In
addition to obvious psychological responses to slavery such as fear,
sorrow and anger, they explore minor-key affects such as shame,
disgust and nostalgia and address the complexity of depicting love and
intimacy in situations of domination. Two forthcoming volumes explore
the literary history of slavery in relation to memory and to practices
of authorship.

Written In: English (eng)



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