Les Mondes de L’esclavage. Une Histoire Comparée

Abstract

irrefutable – or at least plentiful and convincing – evidence. Anticipating such complaints, McLeod Hutchins writes that his writing method addresses ‘the matter of imagination’s role in the work of literary and historical recovery – the imaginations of modern scholars and historical subjects alike.... [S]cholarly creativity is more frequently concealed than celebrated, as claims of causation or authorial intent are flanked with citations meant to obscure the imagination’s role in history and literary reconstructions’ (p. 75). Despite this good point, however, the book would be strengthened by excising such moments of unnecessary conjecture.