Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 /
"Imoinda's Shade examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman's concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and a...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Imoinda, marriage, slavery
- Part one. Imoinda's original shades : African women in British antislavery literature. Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine
- Part two. Imoinda's shade extends : abolition and interracial marriage in England. Creoles, closure, and Cubba's comedy of pain : abolition and the politics of homecoming in eighteenth-century British farce ; "'What!' cried the delighted mulatto, 'are we going to prosecu massa?'" : 'Adeline Mowbray''s distinguished complexion of abolition ; "An unportioned girl of my complexion can ... be a dangerous object" : abolition and the mulatto heiress in England
- Afterword.