Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Representation in Dutch Bourgeois Theater of 1800
Unlike the German, French, and particularly Anglo-American cases, the Dutch theatrical imaginings of colonialism, slavery, and race have been largely neglected by scholars of imperial culture. Looking at two early nineteenth-century bourgeois dramas, Stedman (1805) and Kraspoekol (1800), this article examines the complex nexus between slavery, sympathy, and the self-representation of the white middle class in the Netherlands of 1800. As a genre, bourgeois theater cultivated middle-class ideals of compassion, integrity, and benevolence in order to let spectators sympathize with poor, excluded o... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Early Modern Low Countries, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 146-168 (2018) |
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Schlagwörter: | sympathy / abolitionism / bourgeois drama / Gloria Wekker / Dutch self-representation / History of Low Countries - Benelux Countries / DH1-925 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27404168 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.18352/emlc.69 |