Search Results - "antislavery"
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Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture
Published 2013“…Finding some of the same limitations of paternalism, dehumanisation and sensationalism as dominated much of the first antislavery movement’s visual culture, the article nonetheless identifies a liberatory aesthetic and a protest memory in the antislavery imagery of several contemporary artists, including Charles Campbell and Romuald Hazoume`.…”
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“It is time for the slaves to speak:” transatlantic abolitionism and African American activism in Britain 1835-1895
Published 2018“…Their acts of resistance infused this tradition with a spirit of independence that could be deployed against paternalistic white antislavery reformers as well as white racists, both on an abolitionist and non-abolitionist stage. …”
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Mimicry of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the formation of resistant slave narrative in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada
Published 2017“…In his “resistant” slave narrative Flight to Canada (1976), he takes to task the traditional historiography, showing how a so-called antislavery novel like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin employs racial essentialism to reinforce the stereotypical representations of blacks and distort history to the benefit of white dominators. …”
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"Dusky powder magazines": the Creole revolt (1841) in nineteenth century American literature
Published 2002“…This chapter discusses Brown's experimentation with an antislavery panorama and interweaving of literary, biographical and historical techniques to revise existing formal conventions. …”
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Slavery from space: an analysis of the modern slavery-environmental degradation nexus using remote sensing data
Published 2020“…Satellite EO is an underutilised methodology within the antislavery community and, as shown within this thesis, there is the power to investigate the environmental implications of these sectors which have had numerous documented cases of modern slavery. …”
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