Winner of the 2013 C. Hugh Holman Award
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The Logic of Slavery: Debt, Technology, and Pain in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
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Winner of the 2013 C. Hugh Holman Award
Very Disappointing The Logic of Slavery was NOT written for an intelligent, reasonably well educated laity. It may be a highly specialized instance of cultural studies research, written by a scholar for other scholars working in the same substantive and methodological traditions. However, identifying those traditions is difficult, in part because the author’s range and variety of references are enormous, covering just about every conceivable topic in the humanities, and in part because his objectives are…
concepts and metaphors on the body of slavery logic as used in general talk seldom meets opposition; by its use we mean that you’re either making sense when talking or you’re not, and if you’re not, then you’re not being logical, and all involved parties have a working grasp of what logic, in that general sense, is. logic as taught in the universities is another matter: logic as a group of arcane symbols, to which, we have to thank for our analog and digital apparati; logic embedded in forms of discourse associated with argument as within…