While attentive to the performance of power-the terrible spectacles Theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of "scenes" ranging from the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Individual will and responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery and freedom.
This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery, emergent notions of
While attentive to the performance of power-the terrible spectacles of slaveholders' dominion and the innocent amusements designed to abase and pacify the enslaved-and theĮntanglements of pleasure and terror in these displays of mastery, Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance, redress and transformation embodied in black performance and everyday practice. The auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of "scenes" ranging from Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected in particular, theĮncroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity.
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