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Author(s): Saidiya Hartman, Cameron Rowland (editor)

ISBN(s): 9781324021582, 1324021586

Edition: Updated

File Details: PDF, 17.66 MB

Year: 2022

Language: English

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Author: Saidiya Hartman

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.

Table contents:

A Note on Method
I: Formations of Terror and Enjoyment
1. Innocent Amusements: The Stage of Suffering
The Property of Enjoyment
(In)sufferable Pleasures
The Coffle
Disavowing the Claims of Pain
The Pleasant Path
Fraught Pleasures
Notation: Transit in the Flesh, On Being the Object of Property
2. Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice
The Centrality of Practice
The Closures of Sentiment
The Character of Practice
Performing Blackness
Defamiliarizing the “Negro’s Enjoyment”
Politics without a Proper Locus
Stealing Away, the Space of Struggle, and the Nonautonomy of Practice
Embodied Needs and the Politics of Hunger
Memory and History
The Body of Memory
Redress::How the Broken Body Moves
Notation: Black Antagonism
3. Seduction and the Ruses of Power
The Violence of the Law
The Bonds of Affection
A Brutal Hand, a Yielding Heart
The Measure of Humanity
Rape and Other Offenses to Existence
The Shadow of the Law
The Narrative of Seduction: Slave and Paramour
The Seduction of the Reader
Deliberate Calculation
II: The Subject of Freedom
4. The Burdened Individuality of Freedom
Notation: Cycles of Accumulation and Dispossession
5. Fashioning Obligation: Indebted Servitude and the Legacy of Slavery
Idle Concerns
The Debt of Emancipation
The Encumbrance of Freedom
Possession by Contract
The Will and the Whip
Unbecoming Conduct
Every Man Is a Master
A Curious Domesticity, an Uncertain Form
Proximate Dangers, Habitual Intercourse
6. Instinct and Injury: The Just and Perfect Inequality of the Color Line
An Obscurity Blacker Than Poverty
The Ambivalence of Freedom
The Most Representative Person, or a Man Like Any Other
Blood and Sentiment
The Place of Race
Plessy v. Ferguson
An Asylum of Inequality
Notation: Theses on the Nonevent of Emancipation or the Graphic Registers of a Moan
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Postscript for the New Edition
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Annotations
Index
Also by Saidiya Hartman