Slavery and the culture of taste /

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It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gikandi, Simon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Slavery in literature.
Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Ästhetik
Höflichkeit
Moral
Sklaverei
Umgangsformen
Sklave.
Sklaverei.
Kultur.
Ästhetik.
Motiv.
Großbritannien
Karibik
USA.
Großbritannien.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overture: sensibility in the age of slavery
  • Intersections: taste, slavery, and the modern self
  • Unspeakable events: slavery and white self-fashioning
  • Close encounters: taste and the taint of slavery
  • "Popping sorrow": loss and the transformation of servitude
  • The ontology of play: mimicry and the counterculture of taste.

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