The Logic of Slavery - 9781107025073
Un libro in lingua di Tim Armstrong edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2012
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"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 whoselives 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. Finally, Armstrong examines how conceptions of the slave as a container of suppressed pain are reflected in disciplines as diverse as art, sculpture, music, and psychology"--
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Logic of Slavery
- Sottotitolo: Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Tim Armstrong
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 27 Agosto '12
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Slavery in literature American literature 19th century History and criticism American literature 20th century History and criticism
- Pagine: 252
- ISBN-10: 1107025079
- EAN-13: 9781107025073