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.
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Audacious....Original and provocative....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 *
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Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-508983-7 (9780195089837)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Saidiya Hartman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley
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Assistant Professor, Department of African American StudiesAssistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
