Imoinda's shade
Subtitle: marriage and the African woman in eighteenth-century British literature, 1759-1808
By: Lyndon J. Dominique
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814211854; 9780814292860
Subjects: Women, Black, in literature; English literature; Marriage in literature; History and criticism; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama; title: The soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny : amelioration and African women in The grateful negro; title: "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the black African heroine; title: Creoles, closure, and Cubba's comedy of pain : abolition and the politics of homecoming in eighteenth-century British farce; title: "What? Are we going to prosecu massa?" : Adeline Mowbray's distinguished complexion of abolition; title: "An unportioned girl of my complexion can...be a dangerous object." Abolition and the mulatto heiress in England.