04236nam 22008772 450 991046180410332120151005020622.01-107-23207-41-139-50836-91-283-52179-21-139-51804-697866138342491-139-17725-71-139-51897-61-139-51454-71-139-51546-21-139-51711-2(CKB)2670000000231248(EBL)944755(OCoLC)804664390(SSID)ssj0000741386(PQKBManifestationID)11384353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741386(PQKBWorkID)10720699(PQKB)10422682(UkCbUP)CR9781139177252(MiAaPQ)EBC944755(Au-PeEL)EBL944755(CaPaEBR)ebr10583292(CaONFJC)MIL383424(EXLCZ)99267000000023124820111028d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe logic of slavery debt, technology, and pain in American literature /Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012.1 online resource (x, 252 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in American literature and culture Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-60781-7 1-107-02507-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: 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.In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique 'culture of slavery'. That culture exists as a metaphorical, artistic and literary tradition attached to the enslaved - human beings whose lives are 'owed' to another, who are used as instruments by another and who must endure suffering in silence. Tim Armstrong explores the metaphorical legacy of slavery in American culture by investigating debt, technology and pain in African-American literature and a range of other writings and artworks. Armstrong's careful analysis reveals how notions of the slave as a debtor lie hidden in our accounts of the commodified self and how writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison grapple with the pervasive view that slaves are akin to machines.Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.Slavery in literatureAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismSlavery in artSlaveryUnited StatesHistorySlaveryPsychological aspectsSlaveryEconomic aspectsCommodificationReificationSlavery in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Slavery in art.SlaveryHistory.SlaveryPsychological aspects.SlaveryEconomic aspects.Commodification.Reification.810.9/355Armstrong Tim1956-1052871UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910461804103321The logic of slavery2484394UNINA