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

by Saidiya Hartman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324021586
• ISBN13: 9781324021582
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.2"