Carl Plasa
Biographic Data
| ID | 2735835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Plasa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Plasa |
| SIGNATURE | PLASA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Literature, Art and Slavery
Literature, Art and Slavery
‘Slave-Ships on Fantastic Seas’
This chapter switches attention from ekphrases on Turner’s The Slave Ship to consider the literary legacies of three abolitionist images from British and French traditions: Stowage of the British Slave Ship ‘Brookes’ under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788 (c. 1788); Description of a Slave Ship (1789); and ‘Négrier Poursuivi, Jetant ses Nègres à la Mer’ (‘Slave Ship Being Pursued, Throwing its Blacks into the Sea’), an undated illustration th…
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1.1J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhon Coming On, 1840. 122.1Description of a Slave Ship, 1789. 543.1Agnes Martin, Isla
Doing the Slave Trade in Different Voices
Although an African American poem about the transatlantic slave trade, Robert Hayden's "Middle Passage" (1945; rev. 1962) paradoxically draws on an array of white writings to shape its vision, using compositional strategies indebted to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). The adoption of such an intertextual and interracial poetics is daringly provocative when considered in terms of the poem's shifting literaryI, cultural and political contexts. …
Slaves to Sweetness
Slaves to Sweetness
Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of slavery in the New World. 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 No l Deerr s monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Pow…
Stained With Spots of Human Blood”
This article explores representations of sugar in abolitionist discourses of the 1780s and 1790s, taking Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789) as its starting-point and frame of reference. As several critics have noted, one important feature of this text is its appropriation and reversal of the image of the racial other as cannibal. Such an image is a …
Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism
This book explores questions of race and identification in writings from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on post-colonial theory, it provides close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano, Jane
Charlotte Brontë's Foreign Bodies
Charlotte Bronte's Foreign Bodies: Slavery and Sexuality in The Professor Carl Plasa As we look back at the cultural archive, we begin to read it not univocally but contrapuntally, with a simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan history that is narrated and of those other histories against which (and together with which) the dominating discourse acts. Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (59) The opening chapter of Charlotte Bronte's fi…
Reading "The Geography of Hunger" in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Reading "The Geography of Hunger" in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism
This book explores questions of race and identification in writings from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on post-colonial theory, it provides close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano, Jane
Charlotte Brontë's Foreign Bodies
Charlotte Bronte's Foreign Bodies: Slavery and Sexuality in The Professor Carl Plasa As we look back at the cultural archive, we begin to read it not univocally but contrapuntally, with a simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan history that is narrated and of those other histories against which (and together with which) the dominating discourse acts. Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism (59) The opening chapter of Charlotte Bronte's fi…
Stained With Spots of Human Blood”
This article explores representations of sugar in abolitionist discourses of the 1780s and 1790s, taking Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789) as its starting-point and frame of reference. As several critics have noted, one important feature of this text is its appropriation and reversal of the image of the racial other as cannibal. Such an image is a …
Slaves to Sweetness
Apparently innocuous, sugar is a substance which brings with it a profound disquiet, not least because of its direct links with the histories of slavery in the New World. 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 No l Deerr s monumental two-volume The History of Sugar (1949-50) to Sidney Mintz's Sweetness and Pow…
Slaves to Sweetness
Doing the Slave Trade in Different Voices
Although an African American poem about the transatlantic slave trade, Robert Hayden's "Middle Passage" (1945; rev. 1962) paradoxically draws on an array of white writings to shape its vision, using compositional strategies indebted to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). The adoption of such an intertextual and interracial poetics is daringly provocative when considered in terms of the poem's shifting literaryI, cultural and political contexts. …
Literature, Art and Slavery
Literature, Art and Slavery
‘Slave-Ships on Fantastic Seas’
This chapter switches attention from ekphrases on Turner’s The Slave Ship to consider the literary legacies of three abolitionist images from British and French traditions: Stowage of the British Slave Ship ‘Brookes’ under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788 (c. 1788); Description of a Slave Ship (1789); and ‘Négrier Poursuivi, Jetant ses Nègres à la Mer’ (‘Slave Ship Being Pursued, Throwing its Blacks into the Sea’), an undated illustration th…
Figures
1.1J. M. W. Turner, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhon Coming On, 1840. 122.1Description of a Slave Ship, 1789. 543.1Agnes Martin, Isla
Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)