1st Edition
Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness The Visual and Material Cultures of Slavery
Introduction: Expanding and Complicating the Concept of Creolization
Charmaine A. Nelson
1. Blackness and Lines of Beauty in the Eighteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World
Kristina Huang
2. ‘Concatenation’: Syncretism in the Life Cycle of David Drake’s Earthenware
Rach Klein
3. ‘[A] tone of voice peculiar to New-England’: Fugitive Slave Advertisements and the Heterogeneity of Enslaved People of African Descent in Eighteenth-Century Quebec
Charmaine A. Nelson
4. Creolization on screen: Guy Deslauriers’s The Middle Passage as Afro-Diasporic Discourse [Le passage du milieu]
Sophie Saint-Just
5. Baskets of Rice: Creolization and Material Culture from West Africa to South Carolina’s Lowcountry
Matti Turner
6. The Wages of Empire: American Inventions of Mixed-Race Identities and Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall (2012)
Eloisa Valenzuela-Mendoza
7. From Raw to Refined: Edouard Duval-Carrié’s Sugar Conventions (2013)
Lesley Wolff
Biography
Charmaine A. Nelson is a Provost Professor of Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is also the Director of the Slavery North Initiative which focuses on the study of Transatlantic Slavery in Canada and the US North. Nelson has made ground-breaking contributions to the fields of the Visual Culture of Slavery, Race and Representation, and Black Canadian Studies. She has published eight books including The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (2007), Slavery, Geography, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (2016), and The Precariousness of Freedom: Slave Resistance as Experience, Process and Representation (2024).
