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Black Neo-Victoriana / edited by Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke and Julian Wacker

Espinoza Garrido, Felipe [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Tronicke, Marlena, 1987- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Wacker, Julian, 1990- [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] [© 2022]

XII, 263 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 25 cm

Englisch

Literaturangaben

Erscheint auch als: Black neo-Victoriana. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Black Neo-Victoriana (Online-Ausgabe)

978-90-04-46914-3 (hardback)

978-90-04-46915-0 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021041463

OCoLC: 1283493544     

DA125.B53

305.896041     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 18.05 (Englische Literatur) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*Großbritannien ; Kultur ; Schwarze ; Rezeption ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Film ; Geschichte 1837-1901 ; Geschichte 1970-2020     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Blacks -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Blacks -- Social conditions -- 19th century ; Blacks -- Race identity -- History -- 19th century ; Blacks -- Intellectual life -- 19th century ; Blacks in mass media ; Blacks in literature ; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century

Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Blackness and neo-Victorian studies: re-routing imaginations of the nineteenth century / Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Marlena Tronicke, and Julian Wacker -- PART 1 Black life writing and biofictions -- Confessions of a Black Ouidaite: autoethnographic neo-Victorianism / Jesse Ryan Erickson -- Black, Queer, Victorian? The precarious neo-Victorian afterlives of Prince Alemayehu / Susanne Gruss -- We need to talk about Sarah Baartman: Black bodies, white voices, and the politics of NeoVictorian authorship / Helen Davies -- A "natural tint": Red Velvet and the archive of Black Victorian theatre / Marlena Tronicke -- PART 2 Black Victorians on screen: politics, ethics, protests -- "For all the blood we share, for all the miles we have walked... we are not the same": revealing an intolerant past in Showtime's Penny dreadful / U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Three Lady Macbeths and a critique of imperialism / Antonija Primoracvi -- The Birth of a nation, transatlantic encounters, and African Americans as 'global' neo-Victorians / Lewis Mondal -- PART 3 Material remains, refashionings, and reconstructions -- The Black dandy and neo-Victorianism: re-fashioning a stereotype / Maria Weilandt -- Steamfunk: remembering Black futures in Nisi Shawl's Everfair / Judith Rahn and Iolanda Ramos -- Country houses, slavery and the Victorians: reinterpreting heritage sites / Corinne Fowler -- Afterwod: Beyond Bridgerton: Blackness and neo-Victoriana / Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Index.

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"Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Located at the intersections of postcolonial studies, Black studies, and neo-Victorian criticism, this interdisciplinary collection engages with the global trend to reimagine and rewrite Black Victorian subjectivities that have been continually marginalised in both historical and cultural discourses. Contributions cover a range of media, from novels and drama to film, television and material culture, and draw upon cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk. The book evidences how neo-Victorian studies benefits from reading re-imaginations of the long nineteenth century vis-à-vis Black epistemologies, which unhinge neo-Victorianism's dominant spatial and temporal axes and reroute them to conceive of the (neo-)Victorian through Blackness"--