The Logic of Slavery

Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature

AvTim Armstrong

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2012-08-27
Mått:153 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107607811
Utmärkelser:Hugh Holman Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature 2013

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Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He previously taught at University College London, University College Cork and the University of Sheffield. He is author of Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000) and Modernism: A Cultural History (2005). He is editor of American Bodies (1996) and Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (1993, 2009), and co-editor of Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics (1994).

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'The Logic of Slavery is a bracing read and a showcase for Armstrong's remarkable intellectual flexibility and range.' The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Slavery, insurance, and sacrifice: the embodiment of capital; 2. Debt, self-redemption, and foreclosure; 3. Machines inside the machine: slavery and technology; 4. The hands of others: sculpture and pain; 5. The sonic veil; 6. Slavery in the mind: trauma and the weather; Notes; Index.