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: 9780195089837

ISBN-10: 0195089839

ISBN-13: 9780195089837

Edition: 1997

Authors: Saidiya V. Hartman

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Hartman shows how the violence of captivity and enslavement was embodied in many of the performance practices that grew from, and about, slave culture in antebellum America. Using tools of anthropology, history, and literary criticism, Hartman examines a wealth of material, including songs, dance, stories, diaries, narratives, and journals. Hartman analyses the presentations of slavery and blackness in minstrelsy; the constructions of slave culture in 19th century ethnographic writings and the political consciousness of folklore.

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction



Formations of Terror and Enjoyment



Innocent Amusements: The Stage of Sufferance



Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice



Seduction and the Ruses of Power



The Subject of Freedom



The Burdened Individuality of Freedom



Fashioning Obligation: Indebted Servitude and the Fetters of Slavery



Instinct and Injury: Bodily Integrity, Natural Affinities, and the Constitution of Equality


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index