Uof Winnipeg. Black Atlantic; Book "Myths of Mastery" and Mary Prince for Broadview. Holistic abolition. 😷 She/hers 🇹🇹🇮🇪 Views my own.
Apr 21 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
TS wants "the 1830s but without all the racists". Why choose 1830s? One reason is it taps into the global cultural currency of Regency Whiteness that @desha_osborne & I argue is forged by Jane Austen's novels and reproduced globally by Austen cultures, afterlives & adaptations 1/
Drawing on Edward Said, Gerald Horne and others, essays for the volume examine the powerful race-making work that Austen’s novels perform and the global significance of this work in forging white subjectivity as universal. 2/
