Art, Affect, and Enslavement: The Song of the Oxcart in Colonial Dutch Brazil
Focusing on a single artwork, Frans Post’s painting called <i>The Oxen Cart</i> of 1638, this article explores what Édouard Glissant calls the emotional apartheid of the plantation system. It argues that the affective evasion of Post’s painting fosters anti-Black racism by denying the fu...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Arts |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/1/25 |