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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
163. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.