Slavery and the forensic theatricality of human rights in the Spanish empire / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen.
Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, 1962- author.
2023
PQ7081 .S55 2023
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Title
Slavery and the forensic theatricality of human rights in the Spanish empire / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen.
Author
Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, 1962- author.
ISBN
3031315316 electronic book
9783031315312 (electronic bk.)
9783031315305
3031315308
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31531-2
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (302 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-31531-2 doi
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PQ7081 .S55 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
860.93581
Summary
This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in the Salamanca School (especially Bartolom de Las Casas), developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and tragic. Karen-Margrethe Simonsen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Palgrave studies in literature, culture, and human rights
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
Part I: Slavery, Theatricality and Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
Chapter 2: Slavery and Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
Chapter 3: Allegorical Theatricality: Horror and Human Rights in Bartolom de las Casas Atrocity Story A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Part II: Comic Modes of Theatricality and Human Rights in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth Century Spain
Chapter 4: Carnivalesque Theatricality: Defeat, Revenge and Collective Rights in Micael de Carvajals Court of Death and the Tragedy of Atawallpas Death
Chapter 5: Tragicomic Theatricality: Forensic Presentism and a Dual Vision of Rights in Lope de Vegas The New World Discovered by Christopher Columbus
Part III: Tragic Modes of Theatricality and Human Rights in Nineteenth Century Cuba
Chapter 6: Melodramatic Theatricality: Tableaux of Natural Rights and Interracial Solidarity in Gertrudis Gmez de Avellanedas Sab
Chapter 7: Tragic Theatricality: Vulnerability and Rights in Juan Francisco Manzanos Autobiography of a Slave and Zafira
Chapter 8: Epilogue: Forensic Theatricality and Human rights.

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