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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making

Saidiya Hartman
Themes:
IdentitySlaveryWar & Conflict
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Diaspora

USA

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Contemporary

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English

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History

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Analysis of everyday violence of slavery and its afterlife in American society.

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Pioneered 'afterlives of slavery' concept; influential in Black Studies

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Analysis of everyday violence of slavery and its afterlife in American society. Pioneered 'afterlives of slavery' concept; influential in Black Studies

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