October 19, 2017
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Class of 1947 room, Homer Babbidge Library
Dr. Martha J. Cutter and Dr. Shawn Salvant will be presenting research on their recent books
The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852 by: Dr. Martha J. Cutter
In her book Dr. Cutter analyzes some of the more innovative works in the archive of antislavery illustrated books published from 1800 to 1852 alongside other visual materials that depict enslavement. Martha J. Cutter argues that some radical illustrated narratives attempt to shift a viewing reader away from pity and spectatorship into a mode of empathy and interrelationship with the enslaved.
Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890–1940 by: Dr. Shawn Salvant
The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In this piece, Dr. Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans.
Dr. Cutter and Dr. Salvant are professors in the Department of English and the Africana Studies Institute
This event is sponsored by Africana Studies Institute
For more information, contact: Africana Studies Institute at africana@uconn.edu