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Venus in Two Acts

Saidiya Hartman
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This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn’t already been stated. As an emblematic figure of the enslaved woman in the Atlantic world, Venus makes plain the convergence of terror and pleasure in the libidinal economy of slavery and, as well, the intimacy of history with the scandal and excess of literature. In writing at the limit of the unspeakable and the unknown, the essay mimes the violence of the archive and attempts to redress it by describing as fully as possible the conditions that determine the appearance of Venus and that dictate her silence.
Format:
ebook
Pages:
14 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Edition:
PDF Project Muse
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0DM574N9B

Venus in Two Acts

Saidiya Hartman
4.78/5 (242 ratings)
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This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn’t already been stated. As an emblematic figure of the enslaved woman in the Atlantic world, Venus makes plain the convergence of terror and pleasure in the libidinal economy of slavery and, as well, the intimacy of history with the scandal and excess of literature. In writing at the limit of the unspeakable and the unknown, the essay mimes the violence of the archive and attempts to redress it by describing as fully as possible the conditions that determine the appearance of Venus and that dictate her silence.
Format:
ebook
Pages:
14 pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Edition:
PDF Project Muse
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B0DM574N9B

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