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The Logic of Slavery
Tim Armstrong
其他書名
Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature
出版Cambridge University Press, 2012-08-27
主題History / Africa / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / African American & BlackLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events
ISBN11070250799781107025073
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sRxLvJ6OW5IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.