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

Name: Scenes of Subjection Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780195089844

ISBN-10: 0195089847

ISBN-13: 9780195089844

Edition: 1997

Authors: Saidiya V. Hartman

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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…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English