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Ce livre vise tout d'abord à éclairer le lien étroit qui unit l'invention de la démocratie et l'esclavage en Grèce ancienne. En étudiant la façon dont est défini à Athènes l'homme-marchandise qu'est l'esclave, les formes d'organisation de son travail, ou encore le statut de sa parole dans l'espace judiciaire, il propose une analyse inédite du droit athénien de l'esclavage. Mais il entend surtout placer l'esclavage au cœur de nos réflexions sur l'expérience grecque, en éclairant la façon dont la cité des hommes libres est elle-même modelée par l'institution esclavagiste. L'imaginaire politique athénien, auquel nous associons l'expérience de l'autonomie politique, est en effet le produit de l'expérience esclavagiste. À travers l'esclavage, la cité pense et donne une forme à ses frontières, et c'est un certain rapport au corps, à l'écriture, ou à la notion même de représentation qui se trouve alors éclairé. Mais le livre entend aussi interroger les relations souterraines qui nouent l'histoire de l'esclavage antique à notre présent. Si nous prétendons aujourd'hui, à tort et à raison, être les héritiers de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, en quoi l'esclavage, qui fut la condition même de son développement, a-t-il contribué à écrire une part de notre histoire au point de persister jusque dans notre plus extrême modernité ? Explorant, sous la forme d'essais libres, le droit du travail, la cybernétique, ou les formes modernes de la représentation politique, mais aussi convoquant Hermann Melville ou Aimé Césaire, Paulin Ismard en arrive à la conclusion que la configuration athénienne est d'une certaine façon encore la nôtre. Introduction Chapitre 1. Propriété Incise I. Le robot est-il un esclave comme les autres ? Chapitre 2. Travail Incise II. Esclavage des Anciens, travail des Modernes Chapitre 3. Parole Incise III. Aux origines de la représentation politique : l'esclavage Chapitre 4. Asile Chapitre 5. Politique Incise IV. Fictions : le gouvernement des esclavesConclusion Notes Bibliographie sélective Remerciements.

Slavery in literature.

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In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery's defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of widespread destruction. Provocative Eloquence recounts how the theater, long an arena for heightened eloquence and physical contest, proved terribly relevant in the lead up to the Civil War. As antislavery speech and open conflict intertwined, the nation became a stage. The book brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict. The book draws on a wide range of work in performance studies, theater history, black performance theory, oratorical studies, and literature and law to provide a new narrative of the interaction of oratorical, theatrical, and literary histories of the nineteenth-century U.S.

Theater --- Theater and society --- Antislavery movements --- Rhetoric --- Slavery in literature. --- History

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"This book tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. The book centers on four black sailors, whose experiences with slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction. Through these sailors and their fictional avatars, Warren argues that a lost history of the politics of insurrection resurfaces. This history has been either largely ignored or subsumed under the generic political anxieties of the abolitionist movement and widespread fears of a large-scale slave revolt. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. This book is a call to consider, or reconsider, how the confluence of politics, language, and narrative are complicit in shaping the ways in which we think about race and violence. Using the backdrop of the ocean to highlight both the expansive imaginary and the perilous reality of undoing oppressive hierarchies through mutiny, Fire On the Water challenges scholars to consider how violence gets categorized as "revolutionary" or "aberrant.""-- "Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinque, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence"--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. --- English literature --- American literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Slave insurrections in literature. --- Antislavery movements in literature. --- Abolitionists in literature. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- History and criticism. --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Slave insurrections in literature --- Slave rebellions in literature.