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The Logic of Slavery

The Logic of Slavery

Armstrong, Tim

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1107607817
ISBN13: 9781107607811
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 27 2012
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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. Finally, Armstrong examines how conceptions of the slave as a container of suppressed pain are reflected in disciplines as diverse as art, sculpture, music, and psychology.

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