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race and radicalism in the age of Atlantic slavery
1 online resource (x, 528 pages) : illustrations
An innovative transnational literary study, Black Prometheus tracks the mythical figure's surprising resonance in Anglo-American antislavery discourse from 1800 until the end of the U.S. Civil War.
Part I: Historical conditions and contexts of Black Prometheanism. Globalization and the gods : a theory of race and -- or as -- modernity -- The terms of Prometheus's liberation : romanticism, slavery, and the Titan's triumph -- Part II: Prometheus of Africa. Africa versus the absolute : idealism and its others -- The Afro-Promethean "science of the stars" : toward a new metahistory of African survivals -- Part III: Prometheus of Caucasus. Rebinding Prometheus to the Caucasus : idealism's other solution -- Iman Shamil, or the modern Prometheus of Caucasus -- Part IV: A literary history of slave rebellion. Rebellious fictions : Black Prometheus and the undoing of novelistic form -- Byronic abolitionism.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]