1st Edition
(In)Dependent Selves Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency
Introduction: (In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency
Jennifer Leetsch and Pia Wiegmink
1. The Protocols of Dependency in Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
Pia Wiegmink
2. A (Re)Construction of Self in Slavery, Freedom and Asymmetrical Dependency: The 1837 Autobiography of Samuel Crowther
Mary Aderonke Afolabi
3. Community, Self and Dependency: Enslaved Voices in Moravian Lebensläufe (1747–1820)
Josef Köstlbauer
4. ‘Runaway’ Ads as Records of Life Writing: Ariadne’s Story
Amalia S. Levi
5. Wilhelm Joest, Early German Ethnography and Contemporary Approaches to Writing the Life of an Imperial Actor: An Interview with Wilhelm Joest’s Biographer Anne Haeming
Anne Haeming, Pia Wiegmink and Jennifer Leetsch
6. Narrating Captivity—Narrating Oneself: The Report of Filipp Efremov About His Coerced Mobility in Central Asia (1774–1782)
Elena Smolarz
7. The Eunuch and the Emperor: Social Ties and Selfhood in the Writings of Bakhtāwar Khān
Emma Kalb
8. Imperial and Religious Dependency in a Twelfth-Century Tibetan (Auto)Biography
Lewis Doney
Biography
Pia Wiegmink is Professor of Slavery Studies at the Cluster of Excellence “Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Strong Asymmetrical Dependency in Premodern Societies,” located at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) at Bonn University, Germany.
Jennifer Leetsch is Junior Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at University of Trier. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn.
