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The logic of slavery : debt, technology, and pain in American literature /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armstrong, Tim, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 163.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.