Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Hartman, Saidiya V.
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Hartman, Saidiya V.

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines...
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Author: Saidiya V. Hartman
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Hartman, Saidiya V.

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Hartman, Saidiya V.

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

$158.35
Author: Saidiya V. Hartman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the
encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of "scenes" ranging from
the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom. While attentive to the performance of power--the terrible spectacles of slaveholders' dominion and the innocent amusements designed to abase and pacify the enslaved--and the
entanglements of pleasure and terror in these displays of mastery, Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance, redress and transformation embodied in black performance and everyday practice. This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery, emergent notions of
individual will and responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery and freedom. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.

Author: Saidiya V. Hartman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/04/1997
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780195089844

About the Author

Saidiya Hartman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley

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