Mastering Slavery

by Jennifer Fleischner

Book Overview

In Mastering Slavery , Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726534
• ISBN13: 9780814726532
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mastering Slavery is a book which has many layers of scholar

Mastering slavery is an excellent book. Jennifer Fleischner has written a truly interdisciplinary account of a subject that is too often simplified. The intensely complex relationships that existed in the plantation system are examined in this book through the lens of psychoanalysis and literary history, a unique treatment of the subject, as far as I can tell. Fleischner, a former professor of mine at SUNYA, brings to her writing the same rigor she demanded in her classroom, a space where scholarship still matters.