Picture freedom : remaking Black visuality in the early nineteenth century /
"Picture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | America and the long 19th century.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Parlor fantasies, parlor nightmares
- A peculiarly "ocular" institution
- Optics of respectability : spectatorship in the Black private sphere
- Look! a Negress : public women, private horrors and the white ontology of the gaze
- Racial iconography : freedom and Black citizenship in antebellum public cultures
- Racing the transatlantic parlor : blackness at home and abroad
- Epilogue: The specter of Black freedom.