The Slave Sublime

Author : Stacy J. Lettman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469668092
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slave Sublime written by Stacy J. Lettman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity. Jamaica is known for having one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, a fact that Lettman links to remnants of the plantation era—namely the economic dispossession and structural violence that still haunt the island. Lettman contends that the impact of colonial violence is so embedded in the language of Jamaican literature and music that violence has become a separate language itself, one that paradoxically can offer cultural modes of resistance. Lettman codifies Paul Gilroy's concept of the "slave sublime" as a remix of Kantian philosophy through a Caribbean lens to take a broad view of Jamaica, the Caribbean, and their political and literary history that challenges Eurocentric ideas of slavery, Blackness, and resistance. Living at the intersection of philosophy, literary and musical analysis, and postcolonial theory, this book sheds new light on the lingering ghosts of the plantation and slavery in the Caribbean.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 'slave' Sublime written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Vine
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178284001X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Sublime written by Steven Vine and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the return of the sublime in post-modernity, and at intimations of a 'post-Romantic' sublime in Romanticism itself. This work looks at 18th-century, Romantic, modernist and post-modern 'inventions' of the sublime alongside contemporary critical accounts of the relationship of sublimity to subjectivity, aesthetics, politics and history.

Author : Hanétha Vété-Congolo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319320882
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Caribbean Oral Tradition written by Hanétha Vété-Congolo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy. It defines the innovative prism of interorality as the systematic transposition of previously composed storytales into new and distinct tales. The book offers a powerful consideration of the interconnections between Caribbean orality and Caribbean philosophy, especially as this pertains to aesthetics and ethics. This is a new area of thought, a new methodological approach and a new conceptual paradigm and proposition to scholars, students, writers, artists and intellectuals who conceive and examine intellectual and cultural productions in the Black Atlantic world and beyond.

Author : Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443859346
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Poetics written by Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together international scholars interested in the ethics of fiction, this book extends the rich field of ethical literary criticism that has emerged in the last twenty years. New ground is broached in that the authors explore literariness itself as constitutive of ethical intimations about the pluralistic community and about egalitarian modes of communication. The epistemological point of departure is the ethical thought of modernity as filtered through Hegelian recognition as infinite social responsibility. The structure of the anthology reflects this anchoring as the authors investigate modalities of recognition and social regeneration via literary language, which effects the transvaluation of values, of the collective imaginary, and of intermediality. This collection is generally concerned with the immanence of intersubjectivity in literature and with how from this immanence new modes of ethical communication are generated. The authors of Ethics and Poetics clarify how modern narratives, in ways akin to, yet different from, political interrogations such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism and gender studies, refine the understanding of the recursive process of recognition, thereby disclosing ethico-political dimensions of the reading experience. The chapters in this anthology share an interest in ethico-literary responses to shifts within modernity from communal to transnational imagination. All the articles explore how modalities of recognition in modern and contemporary literature deeply affect and potentially regenerate real social spaces.

Author : Wairimu R. Njoya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dignity Amidst Devastation written by Wairimu R. Njoya and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen J. May
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476615500
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of The Slave Ship written by Stephen J. May and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.M.W. Turner's greatest and most memorable paintings. Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) in Great Britain produced unprecedented wealth and luxury. For artists and writers this period was particularly noteworthy in that it gave them the opportunity to both praise their country and criticize its overreaching ambition. At the forefront of these artists and writers were men like J.M.W. Turner, Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson, and John Ruskin, who created some of the most enduring works of art while exposing many of the social evils of their native land. The book also analyzes the man behind the painting. Aloof, gruff and mysterious, Turner resisted success. He worked as a solitary artist, traveling to Europe, sketching towns along the way, studying nature, and transferring his experiences to finished paintings upon his return to London. The son of a barber, he grew up in London and experienced many of the social issues of the age: slavery and freedom, poverty in the slums, monarchy and democracy, stability and anarchy. He was a poet of nature and its innumerable mysteries.

Author : Birgit Haehnel
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3865962432
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery in Art and Literature written by Birgit Haehnel and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery, both in its historical and modern forms, continues to be a matter of undiminished political and social relevance. This is mirrored by an increasing interest in scholarly research as well as by critical statements from within the field of contemporary art. The present volume is designed to bring together artists and scholars from various fields of study discussing trauma and visuality, or more precisely, memory and denial of traumatic history within visual discourses. The purpose of this project is to put the phenomenon of contemporary art production dealing with the issue of slavery into a wider, interdisciplinary and transcultural context. The book covers current case studies focusing on different media and including visual, literary and performative approaches of dealing with the history of slavery in West-African, American and European cultures.

Author : A. Dan
Publisher : NBM
ISBN 13 : 1681120275
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoreau written by A. Dan and published by NBM. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust." This graphic novel biography relates the forward looking inspirational life of the great author, philosopher and pioneering ecologist. Henry David Thoreau was also the father of the concept, still fresh today (viz "Occupy Wall St."), of "civil disobedience" which he used against slavery and the encroachment of government.

Author : Paul Gilroy
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860916758
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Atlantic written by Paul Gilroy and published by Verso. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.