Bookshelf
study guides books reading lists e-books
home sign in my orders my e-books my trolley my account contact
| can't find it |

| browse books |
books
 

books

| book details |

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

By (author) Saidiya Hartman, Foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes, Afterword by Sarah Haley, Notes by Cameron Rowland, By (artist) Torkwase Dyson

| on special |

normal price: R 549.95

Price: R 522.95

| book description |

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). 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. 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. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.

| product details |



Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Publisher | WW Norton & Co
Published date | 4 Nov 2022
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 560
Dimensions | 211 x 140 x 30mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 630g
ISBN | 978-1-3240-2158-2
Readership Age |
BISAC | history / social history

| other options |



Normally shipped | This title will take longer to obtain, and should be delivered in 6-8 weeks
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 641.95
 Price | R 609.95 | on special |

| back |
| your trolley |
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |

| specials |

Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

Carlo Rovelli
Paperback / softback
208 pages
was: R 295.95
now: R 265.95
Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 3 to 6 weeks

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 295.95
now: R 265.95
Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 3 to 6 weeks
Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).

The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman
Paperback / softback
352 pages
was: R 295.95
now: R 265.95
Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order
 
Copyright 2025 |  terms and conditions