by Saidiya Hartman
- Auteur(s)
- Saidiya Hartman
- Uitgever
- New York : Cassandra ; MoMA, 2008
- Omvang
- 50 p., geïllustreerd, 30 cm.
- Drager
- zine
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.This essay was republished as a zine and pdf in 2021on the occasion of an installation of works from the MOMA's collection titled Critical Fabulations.
- Trefwoorden
- slavery , black movement
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 30 - 1: Slavernij en Kolonialisme ; Facing up to the Past
- Opmerkingen
- Includes noted ; first published in Small axe : a journal of criticism. - Bloomington (Indiana) : Indiana University Press, 2008. - p.1 - 14,
