The anatomy of blackness : science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment /

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"This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Curran, Andrew S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
1700-1899
Black people in literature.
Travel writing > History and criticism.
Black people > Race identity.
French literature > 19th century > History.
French literature > 18th century > History.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Histoire et critique.
Littérature française > 19e siècle > Histoire.
Littérature française > 18e siècle > Histoire.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Black people in literature
Black people > Race identity
French literature
Literature
Travel writing
Französisch
Literatur
Schwarzenbild
Black people > Africa > Perception.
Black people in literature > 18th century.
Black people in philosophy > 18th century.
Black people in science > 18th century.
Slavery > Africa.
Upplysningen.
Svarta i litteraturen.
Afrikaner i literaturen.
Slaveri.
Reseskildringar > historia.
Fransk litteratur > historia.
Africa > In literature.
Afrique > Dans la littérature.
Africa
Frankreich
Frankreich.
Afrika.
Multi-User
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture
  • Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750
  • Sameness and science, 1730-1750
  • The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography, " 1750-1755
  • The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802
  • Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.

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