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

    Written by Saidiya Hartman

    Narrated by Janina Edwards

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    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.

    This twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJan 16, 2024
    ISBN9781696612197
    Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
    Author

    Saidiya Hartman

    Saidiya Hartman is the author of Scenes of Subjection, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, and Lose Your Mother. She was a professor in the Department of English and African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, prior to joining the faculty of Columbia University, where she is currently a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She received a MacArthur fellowship in 2019. She lives in New York City.

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