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A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond
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Chapter 3
Touching difference and colonial space

Niels P. Holbech’s Little Marie on Neky’s Arm

This essay argues that Little Marie on Neky’s Arm (1838), a portrait by the Danish painter Niels P. Holbech, provides a challenge to sentimental constructions of the West-Indian “nanny” figure. The relational ambiguity of this painting recalls that of the wet nurse and her charge, a figure of nineteenth-century French painting described by Linda Nochlin (1988). In the context of the colonial imaginary, the nanny figure represented fears of “miscegenation” while also acting as a foil to white European motherhood. Other Danish painters portrayed the nanny figure against the backdrop of the external world. Holbech, however, foregrounds Neky and her charge, Marie by locating them in an indeterminate space. Through its close attention to detail and difference, the painting lays bare the colonial ideology demarcating near and far, nation and colony.
Keywords: portraiture, colonial visual culture, Danish West Indies, race, whiteness, miscegenation, affect
Article outline
  • The emotional and geographical ‘place’ of the West Indian ‘Nanny’
  • Wonder and doubt: Affective liminality and agency
  • Tactility and maternity
  • Blood, skin and racial science
  • Conclusion: Displacing domesticity
  • Author queries
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
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