عنوان

Freedom as marronage /

(Number (ISBN

022612746X

(Number (ISBN

022620104X

(Number (ISBN

022620118X

(Number (ISBN

9780226127460

(Number (ISBN

9780226201047

(Number (ISBN

9780226201184

Erroneous ISBN

9780226201184

Title Proper

Freedom as marronage /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Neil Roberts.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 254 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.

Text of Note

Part I: On slavery, agency, and freedom. Introduction ; The disavowal of slave agency -- Part II: Slave theorists of freedom. Comparative freedom and the flight from slavery ; Sovereign marronage and its others ; Sociogenic marronage in a slave revolution -- Part III: Freedom as marronage in late modernity. Marronage between past and future ; Afterword: Why marronage still matters.

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Text of Note

"What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage--a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon--one of action from slavery and toward freedom--he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space--that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite."--Publisher's Web site.

International Standard Book Number

9780226201184

Fugitive slaves-- Caribbean Area.

Liberty.

Maroons.

Abolitionismus

Flucht

Freiheit

Fugitive slaves.

Liberty.

Maroons.

Politische Theorie

Sklavenaufstand

Sklaverei

Widerstand

Caribbean Area.

Karibik

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Roberts, Neil,1976-

Date of Transaction

20200822102014.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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