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P28


Interdisciplinary perspectives on nineteenth-century Latin America: race and gender, slavery and independence 
Convenor:
Camillia Cowling (University of Edinburgh)
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Chair:
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent)
Discussant:
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent)
Location:
ATB G113
Start time:
11 April, 2013 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
1

Short Abstract:

Interdisciplinary perspectives on major nineteenth-century Latin American themes: independence, slavery and abolition.

Long Abstract:

We propose four papers which focus on some of the enduring themes, processes and legacies of the Latin American nineteenth century: independence, slavery and abolition. Drawing on both literary and historical studies, we aim at a fruitful interdisciplinary discussion. In analysing women's contribution to independence processes and the legacy of those contributions, in considering women slaves' agency in combating slavery, or in examining the gendered construction of antislavery discourses and movements, all the papers necessarily incorporate perspectives on both race and gender together. The papers also focus, in different ways, on historical and literary actors who have not traditionally been the subjects of mainstream narratives of independence, slavery and abolition; at the same time, they all grapple with whether, and how, these concerns can challenge or reformulate those established narratives. We will discuss a range of geographical areas and time periods, from the continental independence movements of the early nineteenth century and historical memory of them in twentieth and twenty-first-century Latin America, to the "second slavery" and eventual emancipation and abolition movements experienced by Brazil and Cuba.

Accepted papers:

Session 1