Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris by Matthews, John T.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris by Matthews, John T.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris

For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from...
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
SKU: 9780820362595
Product Type: Books
Please hurry! Only 657 left in stock
Author: John T. Matthews
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $60.55
10 customers are viewing this product
Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris by Matthews, John T.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris

$60.55
Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris by Matthews, John T.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris

$60.55
Author: John T. Matthews
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation's enlightenment ideals and republican ideology. Ideals of liberty, democracy, and individualism could not be separated from a history of forcible coercion, oligarchic power, and state-protected economic opportunism. While recent historical scholarship about the relation of capitalism to slavery explores the depths at which U.S. ascension was indebted to global plantation slave economies, John T. Matthews probes how exemplary works of literature represented the determination to deny the open secret of a national atrocity. Difficult truths were hidden in plain sight, allowing beholders at once to recognize and disavow knowledge they would not act on.

What were the habits of mind that enabled free Americans to acknowledge what was intolerable yet act as if they did not? In what ways did non-slave-owning Americans imagine a relation to slavery that both admitted its iniquity and accepted its benefits? How did the reconfiguration of the plantation system after the Civil War elicit new literary forms for dealing with its perpetuation of racial injustice, expropriation of labor, and exploitation for profit of the land? Hidden in Plain Sight examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery's capitalism.

Author: John T. Matthews
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 04/15/2022
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780820362595
Shipping & Return

Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Review

Related Products

Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD
Example product title
$60.55 SGD
$60.55 SGD

Recently Viewed Products