Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments now revised and updated
One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers -- Claudia Rankine * New York Times Book Review *
A lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy -- Alexis Okeowo * the New Yorker *
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 *
Meticulously researched .... The 25th-anniversary edition of this pathbreaking work of scholarship is a gift to those interested in thinking deeply and expansively about slavery's ever-running machinations. -- Omari Weekes * Vulture *
The brilliance of the book - a brilliance that is considerable, formidable and rare - is present in the space Hartman leaves for the ongoing (re)production of [black] performance in all its guises and for a critical awareness of how each of those guises is always already present in and disruptive of the supposed originality of that primal scene [of violence] -- Fred Moten, author of The Consent Not to Be a Single Being
Innovative ... [Hartman's] writing is impassioned and even lyrical at times ... This is a powerful and thought-provoking examination of slavery's far-reaching legacy * Publishers Weekly *
Sharpens our understanding of whiteness, property, and happiness in startling ways -- David Roediger, author of Wages of Whiteness
A lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy -- Alexis Okeowo * the New Yorker *
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 *
Meticulously researched .... The 25th-anniversary edition of this pathbreaking work of scholarship is a gift to those interested in thinking deeply and expansively about slavery's ever-running machinations. -- Omari Weekes * Vulture *
The brilliance of the book - a brilliance that is considerable, formidable and rare - is present in the space Hartman leaves for the ongoing (re)production of [black] performance in all its guises and for a critical awareness of how each of those guises is always already present in and disruptive of the supposed originality of that primal scene [of violence] -- Fred Moten, author of The Consent Not to Be a Single Being
Innovative ... [Hartman's] writing is impassioned and even lyrical at times ... This is a powerful and thought-provoking examination of slavery's far-reaching legacy * Publishers Weekly *
Sharpens our understanding of whiteness, property, and happiness in startling ways -- David Roediger, author of Wages of Whiteness
Saidiya Hartman is a Columbia University professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is also the author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. In 2019 Hartman was awarded a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' grant.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800819962 |
| ISBN 10 | 180081996X |
| Title | Scenes of Subjection |
| Author | Saidiya Hartman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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