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Kettler, Andrew

 
9781108490733: The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1108490735 ISBN 13 : 9781108490733
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental, which culminated in the creation of a progressive tautology that linked Africa and waste through a conceptual hendiadys born of capitalist licentiousness. The African subject was defined as a scented object, appropriated as filthy to create levels of ownership through discourse that marked African peoples as unable to access spaces of Western modernity. Embodied cultural knowledge was potent enough to alter the biological function of the five senses to create a European olfactory consciousness made to sense the African other as foul. Fascinating, informative, and deeply researched, The Smell of Slavery exposes that concerns with pungency within the Western self were emitted outward upon the freshly dug outhouse of the mass slave grave called the Atlantic World.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Kettler is an Ahmanson-Getty Fellow at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108490735
ISBN 13 
9781108490733
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
254
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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