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- Carrie Lingscheit
- carriel@illinois.edu
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Exploring Textual Representations of Enslavement in Children's Books and Comics — Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas joins us virtually to explore visual representations of the Middle Passage in children’s picture books and comics, re-envisioning the slave ship as a metaphorical floating “dark forest” — a recurring motif that has often been reinforced in speculative fiction and fairy tales as a space of terror, transformation and transmission.