Ramesh Mallipeddi: 1 book
Spectacular Suffering
Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
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.
