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Scenes Of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, And Self-Making In
Nineteenth-Century America By Saidiya V. Hartman (Paperback, 1997)

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 readers in a broad range of historical literary and cultural studies
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In this provocative & original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery & its aftermath Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror & 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 & consent By looking at slave narratives plantation diaries popular theater slave performance freedmen's primers & legal cases Hartman investigates a wide variety of scenes ranging from the auction block & minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed & rights-bearing individual of freedom While attentive to the performance of power-the terrible spectacles of slaveholders' dominion & the innocent amusements designed to abase & pacify the enslaved-and the entanglements of pleasure & terror in these displays of mastery Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance redress & transformation embodied in black performance & everyday practice This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery emergent notions of individual will & responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery & freedom Bold & persuasively argued Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical literary & cultural studies

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