The Slave Trade in British and American Literature

The Slave Trade in British and American Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• The Slave Ship Dance
• Criticism: Depictions By White Writers
  • The Slave Trade and Abolition in Travel Literature
  • The Intellectual Milieu: Contexts for Black Writing
  • Conspicuous Consumption: White Abolitionism and English Women's Protest Writing in the 1780s
  • Looks That Kill: Violence and Representation in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
  • The Disappearing African Woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko After Behn
• Criticism: Depictions By Former Slaves
  • African-American Writers
  • Disguised Voice in The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
  • The Black Presence
  • The (De)Construction of the ‘Other’ in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
• Further Reading