
Scenes of Subjection
Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Saidiya V. Hartman(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 6. November 1997
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-0-19-508983-7 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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 *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
559 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-508983-7 (9780195089837)
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Saidiya V. Hartman
Scenes of Subjection
Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Book
09/1997
Oxford University Press Inc
€37.13
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Person
Saidiya Hartman is Associate Professor of English at the University of California-Berkeley
Author
Assistant Professor, Department of African American StudiesAssistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley