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... tion actually produces is a decentered self with extremely weak ego boundaries , and it involves - above all else — a denunciation of self in order to understand with compassion the artistic subject . For those who use it to create ...
... tion , Tommy had gone to the boiling house to fetch some nails for his day's work , where he met another slave who was " heading up sugars . " Tommy and the other slave apparently spoke casually for a few minutes . Before he left ...
... tion managed by the Portuguese , who controlled the basis for slave supply on the west coast of Africa . One hundred years later , during the 1640s , the trade ballooned again when sugar plantations spread from Brazil to the Caribbean ...
... tion . " " In theory , and in some of their best practical moments , Keats , Shelley , and the other Romantic writers viewed the imagination in this way.12 But more importantly , it was the African and slave presence in Britain that ...
... tion ... we enter as it were into his body , and become in some measure the same person with him . " " Smith makes the enlargement of the imagination not a self- ish but a selfless faculty . One expands the ego boundaries of the self in ...
Contents
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Hazards and Horrors in the Slave Colonies | 45 |
Distant Diseases Yellow Fever in Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 47 |
Intimacy as Imitation Monkeys in Blakes Engravings for Stedmans Narrative | 66 |
Fascination and Fear in Africa | 121 |
African Embraces Voodoo and Possession in Keatss Lamia | 123 |
Mapping Interiors African Cartography Nile Poetry and Percy Bysshe Shelleys The Witch of Atlas | 142 |
Proximitys Monsters Ethnography and AntiSlavery Law in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein | 171 |
Intimate Distance African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworths Poetry and The History of Mary Prince | 194 |
Afterword | 223 |
Notes | 225 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |