Freedom as marronage /
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| Author / Creator: | Roberts, Neil, 1976- author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. |
| Description: | xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10688174 |
| Summary: | 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.<br> <br> 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. <br> |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226127460 022612746X 9780226201047 022620104X 9780226201184 022620118X |