Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Hartman (Author) Summary: 'In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection is not a dour lament but it is an unrelenting argument that these conditions cannot be. Scenes of subjection : terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America Author: Saidiya V. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. It is a state of subjection, different from enslavement, but unfree, nonetheless. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America is written by Saidiya Hartman and published by W. In Scenes of Subjection-Hartman's first book, now revised and expanded-her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the 'terrible spectacle' and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as 'one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers' (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and 'a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy' (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). Search results for: scenes of subjection Scenes of Subjection Off The Map Off to the Market Off with Their Heads The Feminist and the Sex Offender Mask.