Slavery and the Culture of TastePrinceton University Press, 21.08.2011 - 366 Seiten 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 these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time. |
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Overture Sensibility in the Age of Slavery | 1 |
Intersections Taste Slavery and the Modern Self | 50 |
Unspeakable Events Slavery and White SelfFashioning | 97 |
Close Encounters Taste and the Taint of Slavery | 145 |
Popping Sorrow Loss and the Transformation of Servitude | 188 |
The Ontology of Play Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste | 233 |
Three Fragments | 282 |
Notes | 287 |
Bibliography | 321 |
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