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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. 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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African American authors, Commodification, Slavery in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Slavery in art, Reification, Psychological aspects, History, Economic aspects, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, American literature, african american authors, history and criticism, Slavery, united states, history, Slaves as literary charactersPlaces
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The logic of slavery: debt, technology, and pain in American literature
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
1107025079 9781107025073
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