Spectacular suffering: witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic

"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 mea...

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Main Author: Mallipeddi, Ramesh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2016
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Online Access:KUBA1
Summary:"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
Item Description:Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (280 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780813938431