Political Performances: Theory and Practice. Edited by Susan C. Haedicke, Deirdre Heddon, Avraham Oz and E. J. Westlake. Amsterdam and New York: Rodo…

2010

German entanglements in transatlantic slavery: An introduction

2017

This essay aims at bringing together research on Germany’s colonial past and imperialist endeavors with current trends in scholarship in Atlantic history and slavery studies. While scholars of Germ...

Antislavery discourses in nineteenth-century German American women’s fiction

2017

The essay discusses the transatlantic as well as the gendered perspectives on US American slavery in the works of two nineteenth-century German immigrant women writers, Therese Robinson (writing un...

The Serial Character of Abolition: Charting Transatlantic and Gendered Critiques of Slavery in The Liberty Bell

2019

This chapter discusses the editorial work of the female abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman and examines how Chapman envisions the gift book—a collection of poetry, short fiction, essays, and letters designed to be given away as present to a loved one—as a transatlantic space in which political thinkers, writers, and intellectuals could exchange their ideas. In order to enhance the dialogical endeavor of the gift book The Liberty Bell (1839–1859), Chapman makes strategic use of seriality by employing, for example, repeated iconography and cross-references that link contributions in each volume but also the individual volumes with each other. This chapter thus examines how the serial character…