Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery - Couverture souple

Hickman, Jared

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190077794 ISBN 13 : 9780190077792

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike? How did Prometheus come to represent a notion of civilizational progress through revolution--scientific, political, and spiritual--and thereby to center nothing less than a myth of modernity itself ? The answer Black Prometheus gives is that certain features of the myth--its geographical associations, iconography of bodily suffering, and function as a limit case in a long tradition of absolutist political theology--made it ripe for revival and reinvention in a historical moment in which freedom itself was racialized, in what was the Age both of Atlantic revolution and Atlantic slavery. Contained in the various incarnations of the modern Prometheus--whether in Mary Shelley's esoteric novel, Frankenstein, Denmark Vesey's real-world recruitment of slave rebels, or popular travelogues representing Muslim jihadists against the Russian empire in the Caucasus-- is
a profound debate about the means and ends of liberation in our globalized world. Tracing the titan's rehabilitation and unprecedented exaltation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries across a range of genres and geographies turns out to provide a way to rethink the relationship between race, religion, and modernity and to interrogate the Eurocentric and secularist assumptions of our deepest intellectual traditions of critique.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jared Hickman is Associate Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190077794
• ISBN 13: 9780190077792
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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