"We Were But Property - Not a Mother, and the Children God Had Given Her:" The Figure of a Child in Abolitionist Literature

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"We Were But Property - Not a Mother, and the Children God Had Given Her:" The Figure of a Child in Abolitionist Literature

Original language description

This article discusses the use of the figure of sorrowing child in slave narratives and in texts by abolitionists and draws attention to the way the abolitionist rhetoric employed the sharp contrast between the period's idealization of childhood as a state of innocence and purity and the reality of slave childhood. It points to the ways the abolitionist literature challenged the "paternalistic" justification of slavery and exposed it as inhibiting the performance of the ideal of childhood.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American and British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

38-47

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