An Innovative Transnational Literary Study, 'black Prometheus' Tracks The Mythical Figure's Surprising Resonance In Anglo-american Antislavery Discourse From 1800 Until The End Of The Us Civil War. Part I: Historical Conditions And Contexts Of Black Prometheanism. Globalization And The Gods : A Theory Of Race And -- Or As -- Modernity -- The Terms Of Prometheus's Liberation : Romanticism, Slavery, And The Titan's Triumph -- Part Ii: Prometheus Of Africa. Africa Versus The Absolute : Idealism And Its Others -- The Afro-promethean Science Of The Stars : Toward A New Metahistory Of African Survivals -- Part Iii: Prometheus Of Caucasus. Rebinding Prometheus To The Caucasus : Idealism's Other Solution -- Iman Shamil, Or The Modern Prometheus Of Caucasus -- Part Iv: A Literary History Of Slave Rebellion. Rebellious Fictions : Black Prometheus And The Undoing Of Novelistic Form -- Byronic Abolitionism. Jared Hickman. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [471]-507) And Index.