Imoinda`s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 9780814256251

Варианты приобретения

Цена: 7852.00р.
Кол-во:
Наличие: Поставка под заказ. Есть в наличии на складе поставщика.
Склад Америка: Есть
При оформлении заказа до: 2025-07-23
Ориентировочная дата поставки: конец Сентября - начало Октября
При условии наличия книги у поставщика.

Добавить в корзину

в Мои желания

Автор: Dominique Lyndon J.
Название: Imoinda`s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808
ISBN: 9780814256251
Издательство: Ohio State University Press
Классификация:

Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 0814256252
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 302
Вес: 0.44 кг.
Дата издания: 25.06.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 153 x 229 x 22
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Marriage and the african woman in eighteenth-century british literature, 1759-1808
Рейтинг:
Поставляется из: США
Описание:

As the eighteenth century is entirely bereft of narratives written by African women, one might assume that these women had little to no impact on British literature and the national psyche of the period. Yet these kinds of assumptions are belied by the influence of one prominent African woman featured in the periods literary texts.

Imoindas Shade examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African womans concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and abolition. Imoinda, the fictional phenomenon initially conceived by Aphra Behn and subsequently popularized by Thomas Southerne, has an influence that extends well beyond the Oroonoko novella and drama that established her as a formidable presence during the late Restoration period. This influence is palpably discerned in the characterizations of African women drawn up in novels and dramas written by late-eighteenth-century British writers. Through its examinations of the textual instances from 1759-1808 when Imoinda and her involvement in the Oroonoko marriage plot are being transformed and embellished for politicized ends, Imoindas Shade demonstrates how this periods fictional African women were deliberately constructed by progressive eighteenth-century writers to popularize issues of rape, gynecological rebellion, and miscegenation. Moreover, it shows how these specific African female concerns influence British antislavery, abolitionist, and post-slavery discourse in heretofore unheralded, unusual, and sometimes radical ways.

Imoinda`s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808, Dominique Lyndon J.