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

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Meticulously researched.... The 25th-anniversary edition of this pathbreaking work of scholarship is a gift to those interested in thinking deeply and expansively about slaverys ever-running machinations. Innovative.... [Hartmans] writing is impassioned and even lyrical at times.... This is a powerful and thought-provoking examination of slaverys far-reaching legacy. Audacious. Original and provocative. What Hartman has to say about both slavery and its continuing resonances should be heard as widely as possible. A major scholarly contribution. The brilliance of the booka brilliance that is considerable, formidable and rareis 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 originarity of that primal scene [of violence]. Sharpens our understanding of whiteness, property, and happiness in startling ways. InUS