English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Feminist Literary Criticism, Slavery - Social Sciences, Women Authors - British - Literary Criticism, African Diaspora (outsid
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Subject to Others charts the emergence of a colonial discourse in the anti-slavery writing of white British women over two centuries, and analyzes the customarily unheard of and invisible resistances of slaves that resound in every text. Moira Ferguson argues that these women gendered abolitionist arguments by forcing a reevaluation of such familiar anti-slavery thematics as family love, separation, and sexual abuse. She theorizes that this intersection of a feminist impulse with anti-slavery agitation helped secure political self-empowerment for white women while doing fundamental damage to future race relations in Britain. Strong in research and argument, Subject to Others offers a fresh interpretation of abolitionist literary and cultural history.Editorials
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Ferguson (English, U. of Nebraska at Lincoln) chronicles writings on abolition and emancipation by such writers as Aphra Behn, Lucy Peacock, Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Martineau. She argues that anti-slavery protest gave momentum to the development of British feminism, while at the same time the language of this debate--framed by Eurocentric views--unintentionally reinforced British imperialist ideology. Unusually ample bibliography. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 31, 1992
Publisher
New York ; Routledge, 1992.
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780415904766