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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965754178 Title: The illustrated slave : empathy, graphic narrative, and the visual culture of the transatlantic abolition movement, 1800-1852 Author: Martha J Cutter Publisher: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] ©2017 ISBN/ISSN: 9780820351162 0820351164 OCLC:965754178

  
  

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The illustrated slave : empathy, graphic narrative, and the visual culture of the transatlantic abolition movement, 1800-1852

Author:	Martha J Cutter
Publisher:	Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017] ©2017
Edition/Format:	Print book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"The Illustrated Slave analyzes some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha J. Cutter argues that some illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and interrelationship with the enslaved. She also contends that some illustrated books characterize the enslaved as obtaining a degree of control over narrative and lived experiences, even if these figurations entail a sense that the story of slavery is beyond representation itself. Through exploration of famous works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as unfamiliar ones by Amelia Opie, Henry Bibb, and Henry Box Brown, she delineates a mode of radical empathy that attempts to destroy divisions between the enslaved individual and the free white subject and between the viewer and the viewed"--Amazon.com.  Read more...
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Subjects	Slaves -- United States -- Illustrations. Slavery -- United States -- Illustrations. American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. View all subjects
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