Freedom as marronage / Neil Roberts.

Freedom as marronage / Neil Roberts.

9780226201047 (paperback)
022620104X (paperback)
9780226127460 (hardcover)
022612746X (hardcover)
9780226201184 (electronic book)
022620118X (electronic book)

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

English

xiii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

F2191.B55 R62 2015

323.1196/0729

"What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage--a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon--one of action from slavery and toward freedom--he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space--that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite."--Publisher's Web site.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.

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