{"product_id":"fictions-of-emancipation-9781588397447","title":"Fictions of Emancipation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA critical reexamination of Carpeaux’s bust \u003cem\u003eWhy Born Enslaved!\u003c\/em\u003e and other nineteenth-century antislavery images—this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking publication on Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s (1827–1875) bust \u003cem\u003eWhy Born Enslaved!\u003c\/em\u003e examines the work in the context of transatlantic abolitionist movements and France’s colonialist fascination with Africa in the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThoughtful essays by noted art historians and literary scholars, including Adrienne L. Childs, James Smalls, and Wendy S. Walters, unpack European artists’ engagement with the Black figure, simultaneously evoked as a changeable political symbol and a representation of exoticized beauty and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors compare Carpeaux’s sculpture to works by his contemporaries, such as Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, Edmonia Lewis, and Louis Simon Boizot, as well as to objects by twenty-first-century artists Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley. In so doing, the book critically examines the portrayal of Black emancipation and personhood; the commodification of Black images to assert social capital; the role of sculpture in generating the sympathies of its audiences; and the relevance of Carpeaux’s sculpture to legacies of empire in the postcolonial present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt will also feature a chronology of events central to the nineteenth-century antislavery movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470611431660,"sku":"9781588397447","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781588397447-fictions-of-emancipation.jpg?v=1775222679","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/fictions-of-emancipation-9781588397447","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}