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Black Prometheus - Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery (Paperback)
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Black Prometheus - Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery (Paperback)
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How did an ancient mythological figure who stole fire from the gods
become a face of the modern, lending his name to trailblazing
spaceships and radical publishing outfits alike? How did Prometheus
come to represent a notion of civilizational progress through
revolution-scientific, political, and spiritual-and thereby to
center nothing less than a myth of modernity itself ? The answer
Black Prometheus gives is that certain features of the myth-its
geographical associations, iconography of bodily suffering, and
function as a limit case in a long tradition of absolutist
political theology-made it ripe for revival and reinvention in a
historical moment in which freedom itself was racialized, in what
was the Age both of Atlantic revolution and Atlantic slavery.
Contained in the various incarnations of the modern
Prometheus-whether in Mary Shelley's esoteric novel, Frankenstein,
Denmark Vesey's real-world recruitment of slave rebels, or popular
travelogues representing Muslim jihadists against the Russian
empire in the Caucasus- is a profound debate about the means and
ends of liberation in our globalized world. Tracing the titan's
rehabilitation and unprecedented exaltation in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries across a range of genres and geographies turns
out to provide a way to rethink the relationship between race,
religion, and modernity and to interrogate the Eurocentric and
secularist assumptions of our deepest intellectual traditions of
critique.
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