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Beads of Resistance: Reading Black Diasporic Indigeneity in Romantic Abolitionism
- Source :
- Studies in Romanticism (Project Muse); January 2022, Vol. 61 Issue: 4 p515-530, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Abstract:This essay reads displaced Black voices and figures in abolitionist art and poetry as African Indigenes. It discusses the beads around the necks of two figures in Romantic visual culture. The first is a painting of a real Senegalese man, Prince Peter Panah, with Carl Bernhard Wädstrom by Carl Frederik Von Breda. The second is a reinterpretation of this painting in a mezzotint, The Benevolent Effects of Abolishing Slavery, or the Planter Instructing His N--- by W. Pyott, 1792. The beads in both images articulate Black diasporic resistance and Indigeneity that puncture the totality of Romantic abolitionism’s framing.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00393762 and 2330118X
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Studies in Romanticism (Project Muse)
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs62123554