Author: Vivian Patraka
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Surveying texts ranging from plays and performances to films and museums, this book explores the struggle to represent the landscape of the Holocaust.
Spectacular Suffering
Author: Vivian Patraka
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Surveying texts ranging from plays and performances to films and museums, this book explores the struggle to represent the landscape of the Holocaust.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253335326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Surveying texts ranging from plays and performances to films and museums, this book explores the struggle to represent the landscape of the Holocaust.
Spectacular Suffering
Author: Ramesh Mallipeddi
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813938430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which black bodies were turned into things in the marketplace and persons into property on plantations. Mallipeddi approaches the problem of slavery as a problem of embodiment in this nuanced account of how melancholy sentiment mediated colonial relations between English citizens and Caribbean slaves. The book’s first chapters consider how slave distress emerged as a topic of emotional concern and political intervention in the writings of Aphra Behn, Richard Steele, and Laurence Sterne. As Mallipeddi shows, sentimentalism allowed metropolitan authors to fashion themselves as melancholy witnesses to racial slavery by counterposing the singular body to the abstract commodity and by taking affective property in slaves against the legal proprietorship of slaveholders. Spectacular Suffering then turns to the practices of the enslaved, tracing how they contended with the effects of chattel slavery. The author attends not only to the work of African British writers and archival textual materials but also to economic and social activities, including slaves’ petty production, recreational forms, and commemorative rituals. In examining the slaves’ embodied agency, the book moves away from spectacular images of suffering to concentrate on slow, incremental acts of regeneration by the enslaved. One of the foremost contributions of this study is its exploration of the ways in which the ostensible objects of sentimental compassion—African slaves—negotiated the forces of capitalist abstraction and produced a melancholic counterdiscourse on slavery. Throughout, Mallipeddi’s keen reading of primary texts alongside historical and critical work produce fresh and persuasive insights. Spectacular Suffering is an important book that will alter conceptions of slave agency and of sentimentalism across the long eighteenth century.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813938430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which black bodies were turned into things in the marketplace and persons into property on plantations. Mallipeddi approaches the problem of slavery as a problem of embodiment in this nuanced account of how melancholy sentiment mediated colonial relations between English citizens and Caribbean slaves. The book’s first chapters consider how slave distress emerged as a topic of emotional concern and political intervention in the writings of Aphra Behn, Richard Steele, and Laurence Sterne. As Mallipeddi shows, sentimentalism allowed metropolitan authors to fashion themselves as melancholy witnesses to racial slavery by counterposing the singular body to the abstract commodity and by taking affective property in slaves against the legal proprietorship of slaveholders. Spectacular Suffering then turns to the practices of the enslaved, tracing how they contended with the effects of chattel slavery. The author attends not only to the work of African British writers and archival textual materials but also to economic and social activities, including slaves’ petty production, recreational forms, and commemorative rituals. In examining the slaves’ embodied agency, the book moves away from spectacular images of suffering to concentrate on slow, incremental acts of regeneration by the enslaved. One of the foremost contributions of this study is its exploration of the ways in which the ostensible objects of sentimental compassion—African slaves—negotiated the forces of capitalist abstraction and produced a melancholic counterdiscourse on slavery. Throughout, Mallipeddi’s keen reading of primary texts alongside historical and critical work produce fresh and persuasive insights. Spectacular Suffering is an important book that will alter conceptions of slave agency and of sentimentalism across the long eighteenth century.
Spectacular Suffering
Author: Ramesh Mallipeddi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813938424
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813938424
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery."--Provided by publisher.
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Spectacular Sins
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433502755
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
John Piper poignantly shares what God wants us to know about his sovereignty and Christ's supremacy when we encounter sin or tragedy.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433502755
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
John Piper poignantly shares what God wants us to know about his sovereignty and Christ's supremacy when we encounter sin or tragedy.
Spectacular Rhetorics
Author: Wendy Hesford
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349515
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822349515
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners.
Seeing Justice Done
Author: Paul Friedland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199592691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199592691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A history of public executions in France from the medieval spectacle of suffering to the invention of the Revolutionary guillotine, up to the last public execution in 1939. Paul Friedland explores why spectacles of public execution were staged, as well as why thousands of spectators came to watch them.
Spectacular Happiness
Author: Peter D. Kramer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743223241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Finding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743223241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Finding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.
Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805
Author: Miriam L. Wallace
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838757057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The "Jacobin" novel was labeled as such in Britain because of its supposed connections to the French Revolution. This book takes an in-depth look at these novels, written between 1790 and 1805. She centers on the group surrounding Wollstonecraft and Godwin, although not exclusively, exploring the limits of their philosophy of human rights and personal subjectivity. Unlike other recent scholars, the author treats both male and female writers, making feminism an aspect of the work but not the overriding one. While the novels are the main focus, other work by the writers is considered as it pertains to their beliefs. She also discusses the reaction from those who defined the "Jacobins" by opposing them.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838757057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The "Jacobin" novel was labeled as such in Britain because of its supposed connections to the French Revolution. This book takes an in-depth look at these novels, written between 1790 and 1805. She centers on the group surrounding Wollstonecraft and Godwin, although not exclusively, exploring the limits of their philosophy of human rights and personal subjectivity. Unlike other recent scholars, the author treats both male and female writers, making feminism an aspect of the work but not the overriding one. While the novels are the main focus, other work by the writers is considered as it pertains to their beliefs. She also discusses the reaction from those who defined the "Jacobins" by opposing them.
Brutal Vision
Author: Karl Schoonover
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816675546
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post–World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816675546
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post–World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action