Repertoires of Slavery
Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041185345
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and at times a specifically Dutch—identity.
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Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theatre productions, Repertoires of Slavery prises open the conflicting ideological functions of antislavery discourse within and outside the walls of the theatre and examines the ways in which abolitionist protesters wielded the strife-ridden question of slavery to negotiate the meanings of human rights, subjecthood, and subjection. The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and at times a specifically Dutch—identity. It offers insight into the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century theatrical modes, tropes, and scenarios of racialised subjection and considers them as materials of the “Dutch cultural archive,” or the Dutch “reservoir” of sentiments, knowledge, fantasies, and beliefs about race and slavery that have shaped the dominant sense of the Dutch self up to the present day.
Adams's study of abolitionist theater is an important book, which convincingly shows that the white abolitionist movement in the Netherlands upheld a colonizing agenda. It provides a timely counter-narrative that exposes the Dutch performance of anti-Black racism in the past and its impact in the present.,- Angela Vanhaelen, Eighteenth-Century Studies , Vol. 58, Fall, 2024
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Introduction, 1. Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800, 2. Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification, 3. Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery, 4. Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance, 5. Conclusions, Bibliography, Consulted Archives, Collections, and Databases, Literature, Appendix.
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