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SUBJECT TO OTHERS
BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS AND COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1670-1834 |
| By: |
Moira Ferguson |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1317634853 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781317634850 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2014 |
| Series: |
Routledge Revivals |
| Pages: |
466 |
| Description: |
The abolitionist writing of British women helped found a female political vanguard. It also constructed Africans as others, denied Africa and its people any authentic heterogeneity, and displaced anxieties about authors' assumed powerlessness and inferiority onto its depictions of slaves. |
| Synopsis: |
First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then chronicles writings by Anglo-Saxon women and one African-Caribbean ex-slave woman, from between 1670 and 1834, on the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of slaves. Through studying the writings of around thirty women in total, Ferguson concludes that white British women, as a result of their class position, religious affiliation and evolving conceptions of sexual difference, constructed a colonial discourse about Africans in general and slaves in particular. Crucially, the feminist propensity to align with anti-slavery activism helped to secure the political self-liberation of white British women. A fascinating and detailed text, this volume will be of particular interest to undergraduate students researching colonial British female writers, early feminist discourse, and the anti-slavery debate. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Non-returnable |
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