The anatomy of blackness science & slavery in an age of Enlightenment / Andrew S. Curran.

Author/creator Curran, Andrew S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
French literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
French literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Black people--Race identity.
Travel writing--History and criticism.
Black people in literature.
Africa--In literature.

Contents Introduction: Tissue samples in the land of conjecture -- Paper trails: writing the African, 1450-1750 -- Sameness and science, 1730-1750 -- The problem of difference: philosophes and the processing of African "ethnography," 1750-1755 -- The natural history of slavery, 1770-1802 -- Coda: black Africans and the enlightenment legacy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010050254
ISBN9781421401508 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN1421401509 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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