Monsters by Trade - by Lisa Surwillo (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book analyzes literary works from the nineteenth-century that engaged with Spain's active participation in the outlawed transatlantic slave trade.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book analyzes literary works from the nineteenth-century that engaged with Spain's active participation in the outlawed transatlantic slave trade.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Monsters by Trade</i> analyzes how the continuation of the slave trade and slavery in Cuba shaped metropolitan imaginings of coloniality, nation, and empire....[T]his excellent work illuminates the cultural aspects usually invisible in social, economic, and political examinations of the continuance of the traffic.--Alex Borucki "<i>Latin American Research Review</i>"<br><br><i>Monsters by Trade</i> is an original, timely, and intelligent interrogation of slavery and slavery's ghost in Spanish literature, from the 19th century through the early 21st century, which emphasizes the fraught relationships between theory and practice, religion and economics, and coloniality and modernity.--Ruth Hill "Vanderbilt University"<br><br>In <i>Monsters by Trade</i> Lisa Surwillo expertly maps modern Spain's culture of colonialism, while urging us to look at familiar authors from the literary canon in a new light. Both are signal achievements.--Christopher Schmidt-Nowara "Tufts University"<br><br>Surwillo's exceptionally rich survey of literature and its social implications features celebrities (Galds, Baroja) and less-known writers, the position of the returning <i>indianos</i>, and reappearance of the slave trafficker in contemporary Catalan literature . . . Essential.--E. H. Friedman "<i>CHOICE</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lisa Surwillo is Associate Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. She is the author of <i>The Stages of Property: Copyrighting Theatre in Spain</i> (2007).
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