The Power Of Neo Slave Fiction And Public History

Author : Grant Rodwell (College teacher)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781003375524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Neo-slave Fiction and Public History written by Grant Rodwell (College teacher) and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professional historians, schools, colleges, and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslaved-from the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts. In a broader sense, this contributes to a public history. In part, using the quickly growing corpus of neo-slave counterfactual narratives, this book examines the notion of the emerging slavery public history, and the extent to which this is defined by literature, film, and other forms of artistic expression, rather than non-fiction-popular or scholarly-and education in history in the school systems. Inter alia, this book looks to the validity of historical fiction in print or in film as a way of understanding history. A focal point of this book is the hypothesis that neo-slave narratives-supported by selective triangulated readings and viewings of scholarly works and nonfiction-have assisted greatly in reshaping the historiography of antebellum slavery, and scholarly historians followed in the wake of these developments. Essentially, this has meant a re-shaping of the historiography with a focus from slavery to that of the enslaved. Moreover, it has opened new vistas for a public history, devoid of top-down authoritative scholarship. An important and provocative read for students and scholars interested in understanding the history of slavery, its harrowing effects, and how it was culturally defined"--

Author : Grant Rodwell (College teacher)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032451282
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Neo-slave Fiction and Public History written by Grant Rodwell (College teacher) and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professional historians, schools, colleges, and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslaved-from the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts. In a broader sense, this contributes to a public history. In part, using the quickly growing corpus of neo-slave counterfactual narratives, this book examines the notion of the emerging slavery public history, and the extent to which this is defined by literature, film, and other forms of artistic expression, rather than non-fiction-popular or scholarly-and education in history in the school systems. Inter alia, this book looks to the validity of historical fiction in print or in film as a way of understanding history. A focal point of this book is the hypothesis that neo-slave narratives-supported by selective triangulated readings and viewings of scholarly works and nonfiction-have assisted greatly in reshaping the historiography of antebellum slavery, and scholarly historians followed in the wake of these developments. Essentially, this has meant a re-shaping of the historiography with a focus from slavery to that of the enslaved. Moreover, it has opened new vistas for a public history, devoid of top-down authoritative scholarship. An important and provocative read for students and scholars interested in understanding the history of slavery, its harrowing effects, and how it was culturally defined"--

Author : Grant Rodwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000987167
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History written by Grant Rodwell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslaved—from the institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts. In a broader sense, this contributes to a public history. In part, using the quickly growing corpus of neo-slave counterfactual narratives, this book examines the notion of the emerging slavery public history, and the extent to which this is defined by literature, film and other forms of artistic expression, rather than non-fiction—popular or scholarly—and education in history in the school systems. Inter alia, this book looks to the validity of historical fiction in print or in film as a way of understanding history. A focal point of this book is the hypothesis that neo-slave narratives—supported by selective triangulated readings and viewings of scholarly works and non-fiction—have assisted greatly in re-shaping the historiography of antebellum slavery, and scholarly historians followed in the wake of these developments. Essentially, this has meant a re-shaping of the historiography with a focus from slavery to that of the enslaved. Moreover, it has opened new vistas for a public history, devoid of top-down authoritative scholarship. An important and provocative read for students and scholars interested in understanding the history of slavery, its harrowing effects and how it was culturally defined.

Author : Subrata Dasgupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040035663
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconciling Art and Technology written by Subrata Dasgupta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young "interdiscipline" of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be effected. Art and technology are commonly regarded as oppositional. While both are concerned with made things – artifacts – and both have their origins in pre-literate antiquity, the primary purposes they are intended for are quite distinct: the artifacts of technology serve utilitarian purposes while those of art serve affective needs. This opposition between art and technology, notably argued by such scholars as Lewis Mumford and George Kubler is challenged in this book. For, when we consider art and technology as creative phenomena, then many significant, interesting, and often subtle commonalities emerge whereby a reconciliation – a unity – of these two great cultures seems possible. This book utilizes case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts – ranging from the Nataraja sculpture of ancient India, a great astronomical clock of ancient China, and Japanese Samurai swordmaking, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance paintings of Europe to English Elizabethan machinery to the French Impressionists to modernist concrete structures and paintings in both East and West. This book will be of interest to students and professional scholars interested in the histories of art and technology, cultural history, and creativity studies.

Author : Anna P.H. Geurts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040094058
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe written by Anna P.H. Geurts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study of eighty European journeys examines the everyday spatial concerns of nineteenth-century travelers, with a focus on travelers from the Netherlands and North Sea region. From common soldiers in revolutionary Belgium to guests of the tsars in Russia, many of their travel accounts are here examined for the first time. Chapters analyze the different meanings of the home and homeliness; travelers’ desires for socializing but equally their intricate privacy norms; their intense attachment to cleanliness, order, space, and light; and the discomforts of cold, hot, wet, hard, and cramped spaces. Author Anna P.H. Geurts details what spatial characteristics travelers valued, what measures they took to ensure them, and what sensations, emotions, and thoughts this resulted in. Geurts’s careful attention to gender, class, and individual experience turns existing conceptions of industrial modernity on their head. From Napoleonic stagecoaches and sailing-boats to the steam-powered journeys of the belle époque, the continuities in travel experiences are surprising, as are the commonalities between travelers of different social classes and genders. Significant shifts in their spatial micropolitics should be sought less in the world of administration and industrial machinery, and more in travelers’ increasingly flexible and egalitarian mindset and changing economic relations. This book will be of value to students and researchers of cultural history as well as contemporary planning and design.

Author : Maarten Couttenier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000997200
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922) written by Maarten Couttenier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of ‘race’ structured Belgian pasts and presents as well as relations between metropole and empire. In a context of competing European nationalisms, Belgian anthropologists mainly used physical characters, like skull form and the color of hair and eyes, to delimitate ‘races’, which were believed to be permanent and existent. Their belief in a supposed racial superiority was however above all telling about their own origins and physical characters. Although it is often assumed that these ideas were subsequently transferred to the colony, the case of Belgian colonization in Congo shows that colonial administrators, at least in theory, were reluctant to use the idea of permanent ‘races’ because they needed the possibility of ‘evolution’ to legitimize their actions as part of a ‘civilizing mission’. In reality, however, colonization was based on military occupation and economic exploitation, with devastating effects. This book analyzes how, in this violent context, widespread racial prejudices in fact dehumanized Congolese. This not only allowed colonizers to act inhuman but also reduced Congolese, or their body parts, to objects that could be measured, photographed, casted, and ‘collected’. This volume will be of use to students and scholars alike interested in social and cultural history as well as imperial and colonial history.

Author : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029004
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neo-slave Narratives written by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.

Author : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532904769
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Narratives a Folk History of Slavery in the United States written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North CarolinaNotice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Author : Kimberly Drake
Publisher : Salem Press
ISBN 13 : 9781619253971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slave Narrative written by Kimberly Drake and published by Salem Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Kimberly Drake, who directs the writing program and teaches writing and American literature and culture at Scripps College, this volume includes chapters on the more widely read slave narratives, including those by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and Solomon Northup, but also relatively lesser-known narratives, such as neo-slave narrative novels and slave narratives about slavery outside the U.S. Individual chapters will provide researchers with a wide range of approaches to the slave narrative genre, and the volume's Preface will discuss the history of the slave narrative genre from its origins to the present day, where it makes its way into popular films and novels.

Author : Work Projects Administration
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532909504
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Narratives a Folk History of Slavery in the United States written by Work Projects Administration and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]