Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America Binding:Paperback Acclaimed authors Akwaeke Emezi

Acclaimed authors Akwaeke Emezi

Each short story uses hair routines as a window into these four characters' everyday lives and how they care for each other

Charlie discovers a different way of life—one brimming with opportunity—from a promising career at a Black-owned insurance firm

crumbling correspondence

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America Binding:Paperback Acclaimed authors Akwaeke EmeziSaidiya Hartman has been praised as "one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers" (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and "a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy" (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection Hartman's first book, now revised and expanded her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the "terrible spectacle" and toward the