Scenes of Subjection Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America
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Biographical note
Saidiya Hartman is a Columbia University professor of English and Comparative Literature. She is also the author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. In 2019 Hartman was awarded a prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' grant.One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers
- Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review
A lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy
- Alexis Okeowo, the New Yorker
What Hartman has to say about both slavery and its continuing resonances should be heard as widely as possible ... A major scholarly contribution to the project of expanding and refining the nation's political memory.
the Nation
Meticulously researched .... The 25th-anniversary edition of this pathbreaking work of scholarship is a gift to those interested in thinking deeply and expansively about slavery's ever-running machinations.
- Omari Weekes, Vulture
The brilliance of the book - a brilliance that is considerable, formidable and rare - is 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 originality of that primal scene [of violence]
- Fred Moten, author of The Consent Not to Be a Single Being,
Innovative ... [Hartman's] writing is impassioned and even lyrical at times ... This is a powerful and thought-provoking examination of slavery's far-reaching legacy
Publishers Weekly
Sharpens our understanding of whiteness, property, and happiness in startling ways
- David Roediger, author of Wages of Whiteness,