Scenes of Subjection (eBook)

Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America

Saidiya Hartman (Autor)

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2024
668 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80081-993-1 (ISBN)

Rezensionen

The brilliance of the book - a brilliance that is considerable, formidable and rare - is present in the space Hartman leaves for the ongoing (re)production of [black] performance in all its guises and for a critical awareness of how each of those guises is always already present in and disruptive of the supposed originality of that primal scene [of violence]

Innovative ... [Hartman's] writing is impassioned and even lyrical at times ... This is a powerful and thought-provoking examination of slavery's far-reaching legacy

A lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy

What Hartman has to say about both slavery and its continuing resonances should be heard as widely as possible ... A major scholarly contribution to the project of expanding and refining the nation's political memory.

One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers

Meticulously researched .... The 25th-anniversary edition of this pathbreaking work of scholarship is a gift to those interested in thinking deeply and expansively about slavery's ever-running machinations.

Sharpens our understanding of whiteness, property, and happiness in startling ways

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: african-american past • archival research marginalised • Black American history • Claudia Rankine • Critical Fabulation • enlightenment slavery • enslaved people history • slave narratives • The New Jim Crow • Toni Morrison
• ISBN-10: 1-80081-993-5 / 1800819935
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80081-993-1 / 9781800819931