Nabugodi, a scholar of British Romantic literature and a lecturer at University College London, enters the archive with reverence, only to quickly uncover how deeply entwined it is with colonial violence . Slave merchant ledgers list “the names of traders and planters; the enslaved by contrast, are only described as ‘negroe man’ or ‘negroe woman.’” In her powerful, revelatory ” The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive ,” Mathelinda Nabugodi performs what she calls “an act of historical recovery,” reexamining British Romanticism’s beloved literary superstars through the debris they left behind: a baby rattle, a...
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