Scenes of Subjection

Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America

Saidiya Hartman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

560 Seiten

2024 | Main
Serpent's Tail (Verlag)
978-1-80081-996-2 (ISBN)

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The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments now revised and updated

'One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers' Claudia Rankine

'An unrelenting exploration of slavery and freedom' New Yorker

In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman draws together a striking portrait of nineteenth-century slavery and its many afterlives. Through close examination of a variety of 'scenes', ranging from the auction block and the minstrel show to plantation diaries and legal cases, Scenes of Subjection investigates the interconnected nature of historical enslavement and present-day racism.

With bold and persuasively argued possibilities for Black resistance and transformation, this book shows how far we have yet to go to dismantle the pervasive legacy of slavery.

Saidiya Hartman is a Columbia University professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is also the author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. In 2019 Hartman was awarded a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' grant.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	491 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80081-996-X / 180081996X
ISBN-13	978-1-80081-996-2 / 9781800819962
Zustand	Neuware