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Scenes of Subjection
Saidiya Hartman
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
'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.
Rezensionen
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]
Innovative ... [Hartman's] writing is impassioned and even lyrical at times ... This is a powerful and thought-provoking examination of slavery'
A lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy
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'
One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers
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'
Sharpens our understanding of whiteness, property, and happiness in startling ways
Kundenbewertungen
slave narratives, archival research marginalised, the new jim crow, african-american past, enlightenment slavery, claudia rankine, enslaved people history, toni morrison, critical fabulation, black american history