Visualising slavery : art across the African diaspora /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Bernier, Celeste-Marie (Editor), Durkin, Hannah (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Series:Liverpool studies in international slavery ; 9.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'Inside the Invisible": African Diasporic Artists Visualise Transatlantic Slavery / Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah Durkin
  • pt. 1 Slavery and Memory in Contemporary African Diasporic Art. Lost and Found at the Swap Meet: Betye Saar and the Everyday Object / Lubaina Himid
  • Preserves / Debra Priestly
  • What Goes without Saying / Hank Willis Thomas
  • Spectres in the Postcolonies: Reimagining Violence and Resistance / Roshini Kempadoo
  • Strategic Remembering and Tactical Forgetfulness in Depicting the Plantation: A Personal Account / Keith Piper
  • pt. 2. Historical Iconography and Visualising Transatlantic Slavery. Chattel Record: Visualising the Archive in Diasporan Art / Fionnghuala Sweeney
  • Henry Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and Radical Interventions / Alan Rice
  • Uncle Tom and the Problem of `Soft' Resistance to Slavery / David Bindman
  • After-Image: Frederick Douglass in Visual Culture / Zoe Trodd
  • pt. 3. African Diasporic Monuments and Memorialisation. Siting the Circum-Atlantic: Nelson in a Bottle in Trafalgar Square / Geoff Quilley
  • Art and Caribbean Slavery: Modern Visions of the 1763 Guyana Rebellion / Leon Wainwright
  • "The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth': Richmond Barthé's Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines / Hannah Durkin
  • pt. 4. Contemporary Legacies in African Diasporic Art. We Might Not Be Surprised: Visualising Slavery and the Slave Ship in the Works of Charles Campbell and Mary Evans / Eddie Chambers
  • `X is for X Ray, X Slave, X Colony': A 'Lexicon of Liberation' versus 'My Slave History' in the Paintings, Installations and Sketchbooks of Donald Rodney / Celeste-Marie Bernier
  • Reconfiguring African Trade Beads: The Most Beautiful, Bountiful and Marginalised Sculptural Legacy to Have Survived the Middle Passage / Marcus Wood
  • Afterword: Against the Grain: Contingency and Found Objects / Nathan Grant.