The Logic of Slavery : Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1107607817
ISBN-13
9781107607811
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 27th, 2012
Print length
262 Pages
Weight
37 grams
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22.70 x 15.50 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Tim Armstrong explores the cultural metaphors underpinning slavery and its legacy using a range of American art and literature, focusing especially on the writings of African-American authors like Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison.
In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique ''culture of slavery''. That culture exists as a metaphorical, artistic and literary tradition attached to the enslaved - human beings whose lives are ''owed'' to another, who are used as instruments by another and who must endure suffering in silence. Tim Armstrong explores the metaphorical legacy of slavery in American culture by investigating debt, technology and pain in African-American literature and a range of other writings and artworks. Armstrong''s careful analysis reveals how notions of the slave as a debtor lie hidden in our accounts of the commodified self and how writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison grapple with the pervasive view that slaves are akin to machines.
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