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Scenes of subjection : terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America

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Scenes of subjection : terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America / Saidiya Hartman ; foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ; afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley ; notations with Cameron Rowland ; compositions by Torkwase Dyson.

Author

Hartman, Saidiya V.

Publication

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
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Description

xxxviii, 517 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

"The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy" (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection--Hartman's first book, now revised and expanded--her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the "terrible spectacle" and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson."--

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Genre/Form

History.

Note

"First published by Oxford University Press, Inc. in 1997, revised and updated paperback issued in 2022 by W.W.W. Norton & Company, Inc."--Title page verso

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-483) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Human flesh -- Metamorphosis -- Figurative capacities -- A note on method -- I. Formations of terror and enjoyment -- 1. Innocent amusements : the stage of suffering -- The property of enjoyment -- (In)sufferable pleasures -- The coffle -- Disavowing the claims of pain -- The pleasant path -- Fraught pleasures -- Notation: Transit in the flesh, on being the object of property -- 2. Redressing the pained body : toward a theory of practice -- The centrality of practice -- The closures of sentiment -- The character of practice -- Performing blackness -- Defamiliarizing the "Negro's enjoyment" -- Politics without a proper locus -- Stealing away, the space of struggle, and the nonautonomy of practice -- Embodied needs and the politics of hunger -- Memory and history -- The body of memory -- Redress : how the broken body moves -- Notation: Black antagonism -- 3. Seduction and the ruses of power -- The violence of the law -- The bonds of affection -- A brutal hand, a yielding heart -- The measure of humanity -- Rape and other offenses to existence -- The shadow of the law -- The narrative of seduction : slave and paramour -- The seduction of the reader -- Deliberate calculation -- II. The subject of freedom -- 4. The burdened individuality of freedom -- Notation: Cycles of accumulation and dispossession -- 5. Fashioning obligation: indebted servitude and the legacy of slavery -- Idle concerns -- The debt of emancipation -- The encumbrance of freedom -- Possession by contract -- The will and the whip -- Unbecoming conduct -- Every man is a master -- A curious domesticity, an uncertain form -- Proximate dangers, habitual intercourse -- 6. Instinct and injury : the just and perfect inequality of the color line -- An obscurity blacker than poverty -- The ambivalence of freedom -- The most representative person, or a man like any other -- Blood and sentiment -- The place of race -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- An asylum of inequality -- Notation: Theses on the nonevent of emancipation or the graphic registers of a moan.

Call Number

Sc D 23-175

ISBN

9781324021582
1324021586

OCLC

1294288038

Author

Hartman, Saidiya V., author.

Title

Publisher

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]

Copyright Date

Edition

[Revised and updated edition].

25th anniversary edition / revised and updated with a new preface by the author.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-483) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1899

Added Author

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, writer of foreword.

Fuentes, Marisa J., writer of afterword.

Haley, Sarah, writer of afterword.

Rowland, Cameron, 1988- writer of notations.

Dyson, Torkwase, illustrator.

Research Call Number

Sc D 23-175

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