Bücher von Saidiya Hartman

In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery and its many afterlives.By turning critical attention away from the 'terrible spectacle' of the popular imagination, a fuller understanding of the atrocity can be reached by looking instead toward its characteristic forms of routine terror and quotidian violence. Scenes of Subjection examines these forms of domination that usually go undetected: the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment and consent and the roots of Enlightenment ideals in racial subjugation. Delving into what has been withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman starkly illuminates the interconnected nature of enslavement, image-making and present-day racism - and the possibilities for Black resistance, redress and transformation. In a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, the updated edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.

Eine unbekannte Geschichte weiblicher Selbstermächtigung Schon vor hundert Jahren erprobten junge afroamerikanische Frauen in den Slums der Großstädte neue, subversive Formen der Liebe und der Solidarität außerhalb von Konvention und Gesetz: nichteheliche Partnerschaften und flüchtige Ehen, queere Identitäten und alleinerziehende Mutterschaft.Saidiya Hartman lässt die radikalen Lebensentwürfe dieser Frauen wiederauferstehen: eine aufregende Geschichte schwarzer Weiblichkeit, die von Selbstermächtigung statt von Ohnmacht und Unfreiheit erzählt.'Ambitioniert, originell, selbst ein wunderschönes Experiment.' Maggie Nelson