In:A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond
Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXVI] 2024
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 12 December 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxvi.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxvi.toc
Table of contents
Preface
VII
Simon Gikandi
General introduction
XI
Mads-Anders Baggesgaard
Madeleine Dobie
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
Slavery, literature and the emotions: Introduction
1
Madeleine Dobie
Part One.Slavery, sentiment and affect
Chapter 1.Slavery, sentimentality and the abolition of affect
18
Lynn Festa
Chapter 2.Race and affect in Gustave de Beaumont’s Marie, ou L’esclavage aux Etats-Unis
34
Madeleine Dobie
Chapter 3.Touching difference and colonial space: Niels P. Holbech’s Little Marie on Neky’s Arm
50
Helene Engnes Birkeli
Part Two.Slavery between literary codes
Chapter 4.In search of home: Fear and the dream of belonging in Leonora Sansay’s
Secret History; or, the Horrors of St.
Domingo
78
Jonas Ross Kjærgård
Chapter 5.Showing and feeling the atrocities of slavery: Abolition, human rights violations, and the aesthetics of the drastic in popular German theatre, circa 1800
95
Sigrid G. Köhler
Chapter 6.Politics and faith, slavery and abolition in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature: Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Úrsula (1859) and A escrava (1887)
110
Jane-Marie Collins
Chapter 7.Melodramatic tableaux vivants
: Slavery and passionate melancholy in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab
136
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
Part Three.Pity, identification and interpellation
Chapter 8.Before sentimental empire: Slavery, genre and emotion on the seventeenth‑century French stage
158
Toby Erik Wikström
Chapter 9.“No one can imagine my feelings”: The rhetoric of race, slavery, and emotional difference in the antebellum South
173
Erin Austin Dwyer
Chapter 10.Orientalism, slavery and emotion: Slave market scenes in early nineteenth‑century journeys to the Orient
191
Sarga Moussa
Chapter 11.Haunting slavery: The Traumatic Gaze in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
and A Romance of the Republic
207
Lori Robison
Part Four.Affective ties
Domination, dependence and reparationChapter 12.Testamentary manumission and emotional bonds in eighteenth‑century Saint‑Domingue
226
Jennifer L. Palmer
Chapter 13.Affection amidst domination in a post‑slavery society: Toward a microhistory of compensation in nineteenth‑century Martinique
239
Myriam Cottias
Chapter 14.Bárbora and Jau: Slavery in the life and poetry of Luís de Camões
254
António Martins Gomes
Part Five.First-person voices
Silence, trauma and memoryChapter 15.Scenes of emotion in French early‑modern travel writing from the Caribbean: Du Tertre, Mongin, Labat
272
Christina Kullberg
Chapter 16.Fear and love in Matanzas: Emotional extremis in the works of Juan Francisco Manzano
289
Marilyn G. Miller
Chapter 17.The blood-stained-gate: An archive of emotion and authenticity in the new slave narrative
307
Laura T. Murphy
Volume 1.Biographical descriptions
325
Name index
