Literature, Art and Slavery: Ekphrastic Visions

by Carl Plasa

Since around 2000, there has been a noticeable upsurge in critical work on the visual archive of Atlantic slavery, resulting in a host of important studies. While most of these contributions are weighted towards images created during the era of slavery itself, some critics have adopted a more historically far-reaching approach, exploring the ways in which such images live on beyond the original context of their production, circulation and consumption,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748683542
• ISBN13: 9780748683543
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"