Captive city : meditations on slavery in the urban south /
Captive City explores the paths of slavery in coastal cities, arguing that captivity haunts the 'hospitality' cultures of Charleston, New Orleans, Savannah and Baltimore. It is not a history of urban slavery, but a literary reflection that argues for coastal cities as a distinct region tha...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Captive City explores the paths of slavery in coastal cities, arguing that captivity haunts the 'hospitality' cultures of Charleston, New Orleans, Savannah and Baltimore. It is not a history of urban slavery, but a literary reflection that argues for coastal cities as a distinct region that scrambles time, resisting the 'post' in postindustrial and the 'neo' in neoliberalism. Jennie Lightweis-Goff offers a cultural exploration bound by American literature, especially life-writing by the enslaved, as well as compelling reassessments of works by canonical writers such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781512826685 1512826685 |