Landscape as Enslaved Labour in Colonial Dutch Brazil
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Series
Association events, EDID, Sustaining shared futures
Language
English
Speaker(s)
Angela Vanhaelen
Chriscinda Henry
Chriscinda Henry
Location
Burnside Hall, BURN Room 306
This event is in person only
If a green world symbolizes fertility, prosperity, leisure, and enjoyment, a yellow world signifies a withering of the green. Taking as its starting point the yellowish tones of Frans Post’s Brazilian landscape scenes, I argue that the yellowing of the landscape is an indicator of the enormous human and environmental degradation perpetuated by the forcible extraction of labour from enslaved African people and of sugar from the Atlantic Forest.
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