Logic of Slavery - Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He previously taught at University College London, University College Cork and the University of Sheffield. He is author of Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000) and Modernism: A Cultural History (2005). He is editor of American Bodies (1996) and Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (1993, 2009), and co-editor of Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics (1994). Klappentext This book meditates on the conceptual underpinnings of slavery and investigates its impact on other areas of Western culture. Zusammenfassung Tim Armstrong explores the cultural metaphors underpinning slavery and its legacy using a range of American art and literature! focusing especially on the writings of African-American authors like Booker T. Washington! W. E. B. Du Bois! Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Armstrong, Tim (Royal Holloway Armstrong, Armstrong Tim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107025073
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02507-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000