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Freedom as Marronage (Paperback)
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What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil
Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery. 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.
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