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Scenes of Subjection
- Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
- Narrated by: Nichole Marie
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of "scenes" ranging from the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom. While attentive to the performance of power - the terrible spectacles of slaveholders' dominion and the innocent amusements designed to abase and pacify the enslaved - and the entanglements of pleasure and terror in these displays of mastery, Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance, redress, and transformation embodied in black performance and everyday practice. This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery, emergent notions of individual will and responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery and freedom. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage listeners in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-02-2023
Incredible book, thoroughly enjoyed every chapter
Saidiya has an incredible way in which she is able to weave such nuance and depth in ways that make it accessible to almost any reader. Her reflections and the way in which she is able to breakdown the archive is truly second to none
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