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Focusing on the literary responses to visual representations of the transatlantic slave trade, this book explores how images from the era have influenced poetry and literature from the mid-1990s to 2020. It examines the evolution of these images across different contexts and their afterlives in British, American, and French literary traditions, particularly those created between 1779 and 1939. The author, a Professor of English Literature, brings expertise in various literary fields, enhancing the discussion of these powerful historical narratives.

These links have long been a source of critical fascination, generating several landmark analyses, ranging from Fernando Ortis's Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar (1940) and Noel Deerr's monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985).

Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set. schovat popis

In this Readers' Guide, Carl Plasa presents and analyses the most important writings on Morrison's novel, beginning with a discussion of the novel's reception and a consideration of selected interviews with Morrison in the years following publication. schovat popis