Freedom as marronage
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Roberts Neil (1976-....) ;
- Editeurs : Chicago London The University of Chicago Press ;
- Date d'édition : Copyright 2015
- ISBN : 978-0-226-12746-0, 0-226-12746-X, 978-0-226-20104-7, 0-226-20104-X
- Sujets : Noirs marrons, Esclaves fugitifs, Liberté
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii-254 p.), : Ill., 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
Notes
Également disponible en version électronique ; Bibliogr. p. [219]-237. Index
Résumé
'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