The Logic of Slavery by Tim Armstrong

The Logic of Slavery by Tim Armstrong

In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique 'culture of slavery'. That culture exists as a metaphorical, artistic and literary tradition attached to the enslaved - human beings whose lives are 'owed' to another, who are used as instruments by another and who must endure suffering in silence. Tim Armstrong explores the metaphorical legacy of slavery in American culture by investigating debt, technology and pain in African-American literature and a range of other writings and artworks. Armstrong's careful analysis reveals how notions of the slave as a debtor lie hidden in our accounts of the commodified self and how writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison grapple with the pervasive view that slaves are akin to machines.

'The Logic of Slavery is a bracing read and a showcase for Armstrong's remarkable intellectual flexibility and range' The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
'Compelling, persuasive, and theoretically sophisticated, this book is concerned primarily with the figural, metaphorical dimensions of slavery in the Western world … A strikingly original work - deeply engaging, carefully researched and documented - this volume will interest informed readers, students, and scholars of slavery and race, the history of slavery, African American studies, and American studies.' J. A. Miller, Choice
'… deserves a close read by specialists interested in the investment American culture has in slavery and its historical narratives … Its engagement with African American literature, theory, and historical narrative will engage scholars across disciplines.' The Journal of American Culture
'The book is an extraordinarily erudite, intellectually sophisticated, and beautifully written contribution to the wider project - which must necessarily be multifaceted - of disinterring slavery's continuing impact on contemporary American culture.' Anita Rupprecht, Cultural Critique

Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He previously taught at University College London, University College Cork and the University of Sheffield. He is author of Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000) and Modernism: A Cultural History (2005). He is editor of American Bodies (1996) and Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (1993, 2009), and co-editor of Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics (1994).

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ISBN 13	9781107607811
ISBN 10	1107607817
Titel	The Logic of Slavery
Autor	Tim Armstrong
Serie	Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-08-27
Seitenanzahl	262
Preise	Winner of Hugh Holman Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2013, Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2013
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