Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmens primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of 'scenes' ranging from
the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom.

This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. Saidiya Hartman, who grew up in Brooklyn, holds degrees from Wesleyan and Yale and is on the faculty at Columbia University.She is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, and her essays have been widely published and anthologized. Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection is a prodigiously researched, provocative exploration of racial subjugation and the shaping of black identity during slavery and its aftermath. In Scenes of Subjection-Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded-her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.

Hartman scenes of subjection