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Essay from the year 2016 in the subject History - America, grade: A, , course: History of the United States, language: English, abstract: I aim to explore the question of American slavery in the mid 19th century by looking through literary, legal, and post-colonial lenses in an effort to show how abolition-era literary narratives utilize stereotype to reproduce a racist discourse and, further, how legal documents and actions reduce the slave to 'homo sacer' through a state of exception, ultimately making the slave the subject of legitimized sovereign violence. Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is an anti-slavery, abolition-era narrative detailing the lives of a black slave family in the south. Though written with good intentions and anti-slavery sentiments, Stowe deploys a hegemonic ideology by confining slaves to their stereotypic bounds-lamenting slavery while utilizing a typical, Africanist-African-American depiction of slaves. Stowe reproduces a racist discourse by constructing stereotypical characterizations of black slaves; specifically their appearance and how they behave in comparison to their white counterparts.

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• Full title: Sovereignty and Post-Coloniality. The Reproduction of Hegemonic Discourse and Legitimization of Sovereign Violence Against the American Slave
• Author: Lena Dassonville
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 20
• EAN: 9783668359819
• ISBN: 3668359814
• ID: 15576227
• Publisher: Grin Publishing
• Weight: 54 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 1 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. December 2016

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