Spectacular Suffering

Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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Author: Ramesh Mallipeddi ISBN: 9780813938431
Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication: April 29, 2016
Imprint: University of Virginia Press Language: English
Author: Ramesh Mallipeddi
ISBN: 9780813938431
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication: April 29, 2016
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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