![]() Partus sequitur ventrem-the child follows the belly. The plantation is the belly of the world. ![]() Hartman is a professor in Columbia University’s English and Comparative Literature Department. In 2019, Hartman was selected as a MacArthur fellow. It challenges the concept that slavery is “over,” and instead reframes modern racism, in all forms, as a present-day manifestation of slavery’s presence. Fuentes (Afterword), 121 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.20 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The concept of “afterlives of slavery” fundamentally reframes the historicized timeline of enslavement. Hartman Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America Updated Edition by Saidiya Hartman (Author), Cameron Rowland (Editor), Marisa J. The effect ( in her own words) is to “illuminate the contested character of history, narrative, event, and fact, to topple the hierarchy of discourse, and to engulf authorized speech in the clash of voices.” “Critical fabulation” is a way of bridging the gaps in slave narratives by combining research, critical theory, and fiction. Two of her major theoretical contributions include critical fabulation and afterlives of slavery. ![]() Hartman identifies as a cultural historian and her major works include theory (Scenes of Subjection), creative nonfiction (Lose Your Mother), and historical fiction (Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments). ![]() Saidiya Hartman (1961-present) is one of the most influential Black scholars alive today, who has made pivotal interventions in the historicization of U.S. ![]()
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