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Scenes of Subjection

Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

Scenes of Subjection( )
Author: Hartman, Saidiya V.
Series title:Race and American Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-508983-7
Publication Date:Feb 1997
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $242.00
Book Description:

Hartman shows how the violence of captivity and enslavement was embodied in many of the performance practices that grew from, and about, slave culture in antebellum America. Using tools of anthropology, history, and literary criticism, Hartman examines a wealth of material, including songs, dance, stories, diaries, narratives, and journals. Hartman analyses the presentations of slavery and blackness in minstrelsy; the constructions of slave culture in 19th centuryethnographic writings...
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Book Details
Pages:296
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.748 x 23.622 x 2.54 cm
Book Weight:0.568 Kilograms



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