Umfang:
1 online resource (358 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781324021599
Inhalt:
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: The Hold of Slavery -- Introduction -- Human Flesh -- Metamorphosis -- Figurative Capacities -- A Note on Method -- I: Formations of Terror and Enjoyment -- 1. Innocent Amusements: The Stage of Suffering -- The Property of Enjoyment -- (In)sufferable Pleasures -- The Coffle -- Disavowing the Claims of Pain -- The Pleasant Path -- Fraught Pleasures -- Notation: Transit in the Flesh, On Being the Object of Property -- 2. Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice -- The Centrality of Practice -- The Closures of Sentiment -- The Character of Practice -- Performing Blackness -- Defamiliarizing the "Negro's Enjoyment" -- Politics without a Proper Locus -- Stealing Away, the Space of Struggle, and the Nonautonomy of Practice -- Embodied Needs and the Politics of Hunger -- Memory and History -- The Body of Memory -- Redress::How the Broken Body Moves -- Notation: Black Antagonism -- 3. Seduction and the Ruses of Power -- The Violence of the Law -- The Bonds of Affection -- A Brutal Hand, a Yielding Heart -- The Measure of Humanity -- Rape and Other Offenses to Existence -- The Shadow of the Law -- The Narrative of Seduction: Slave and Paramour -- The Seduction of the Reader -- Deliberate Calculation -- II: The Subject of Freedom -- 4. The Burdened Individuality of Freedom -- Notation: Cycles of Accumulation and Dispossession -- 5. Fashioning Obligation: Indebted Servitude and the Legacy of Slavery -- Idle Concerns -- The Debt of Emancipation -- The Encumbrance of Freedom -- Possession by Contract -- The Will and the Whip -- Unbecoming Conduct -- Every Man Is a Master -- A Curious Domesticity, an Uncertain Form -- Proximate Dangers, Habitual Intercourse -- 6. Instinct and Injury: The Just and Perfect Inequality of the Color Line -- An Obscurity Blacker Than Poverty.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781324021582
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781324021582
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
Mehr zum Autor:
Rowland, Cameron 1988-
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