@article{5c9972d971fa40fd8ac8dd014c97535a,
title = "Allegory as historical method, or the similarities between Amsterdam and Albania: Reading Simon Gikandi{\textquoteright}s Slavery and the Culture of Taste",
abstract = "This essay critically reads Simon Gikandi{\textquoteright}s Slavery and the Culture of Taste(2011) and poses questions about Gikandi{\textquoteright}s method of reading allegorically. By closely analyzing his discussion of the painting Two Africans by Rembrandt van Rijn in particular, and scrutinizing how Gikandi sometimes relies on historical and art-historical contextualization and at other moments does not, I argue that his interpretations of the past are up for debate.",
keywords = "Allegory, Rembrandt, representation of black people, Simon Gikandi, metonymy",
author = "A. Andeweg",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1353/eal.2019.0032",
language = "English",
volume = "54",
pages = "329--342",
journal = "Early American Literature",
issn = "0012-8163",
publisher = "University of North Carolina Press",
number = "2",
}