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

'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.

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One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers -- Claudia Rankine * New York Times Book Review *
A lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy -- Alexis Okeowo * the New Yorker *
What Hartman has to say about both slavery and its continuing resonances should be heard as widely as possible ... A major scholarly contribution to the project of expanding and refining the nation's political memory. * the Nation *
Meticulously researched .... The 25th-anniversary edition of this pathbreaking work of scholarship is a gift to those interested in thinking deeply and expansively about slavery's ever-running machinations. -- Omari Weekes * Vulture *
The brilliance of the book - a brilliance that is considerable, formidable and rare - is present in the space Hartman leaves for the ongoing (re)production of [black] performance in all its guises and for a critical awareness of how each of those guises is always already present in and disruptive of the supposed originality of that primal scene [of violence] -- Fred Moten, author of The Consent Not to Be a Single Being
Innovative ... [Hartman's] writing is impassioned and even lyrical at times ... This is a powerful and thought-provoking examination of slavery's far-reaching legacy * Publishers Weekly *
Sharpens our understanding of whiteness, property, and happiness in startling ways -- David Roediger, author of Wages of Whiteness

About Saidiya Hartman

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.

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GOR013954991

ISBN 13

9781800819962

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180081996X

Title

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

Author

Saidiya Hartman

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Year published

2024-10-03

Number of pages

560

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Scenes of Subjection Saidiya Hartman

Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman

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

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