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Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered Elyse Nelson
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux's Why Born Enslaved! Reconsidered
Elyse Nelson
A critical reexamination of Carpeaux’s bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images—this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty
192 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 29, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9781588397447 |
| Publishers | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Pages | 140 |
| Dimensions | 232 × 182 × 15 mm · 488 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Nelson, Elyse |
| Editor | Walters, Wendy S. |
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