美国奴隶起义的反动浪漫:在1811年德国海岸起义的档案中描述不可思议的事情

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Nicolas Farrell Bloom
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摘要:奴役者及其盟友用恐惧的、世界末日的语言写下了奴隶起义,尤其是在18世纪末和19世纪初的美国。这篇文章表明,通过不断以这些方式构建奴隶起义,反奴隶制的美国白人构建并再现了一种关于黑人自决意义的主导性规范叙事,这篇文章称之为“反动的浪漫主义”。这种“浪漫主义”认为黑人自决是一种启示录信号的反对者,特权政治体必须不断地与之进行暴力斗争才能自我复制。它反常地利用黑人的反叛行为,将黑人自由的前景笼罩在恐怖的阴影中,使压制黑人自决成为美国公民受人尊敬的公民义务。这篇文章对这段浪漫故事进行了批判性和历史性的分析,因为它在1811年路易斯安那州东南部德国海岸起义的档案文件中发挥了作用,这是美国历史上最大的奴隶起义。路易斯安那州种植园主讲述1811年起义故事的方式将反动浪漫主义武器化,迫使不断扩张的美国帝国(及其公民)保护和扩大种植园奴隶制的社会和物质结构,以及这些结构对道德和政治想象力的限制。
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The Reactionary Romance of American Slave Revolt: Scripting the Unthinkable in the Archive of the 1811 German Coast Uprising
Abstract:Enslavers and their allies wrote in terrified, apocalyptic terms about slave revolts, particularly in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century US. This essay suggests that by consistently framing slave revolt in these ways, proslavery white Americans constructed and reproduced a dominant, normative narrative about the meaning of Black self-determination, which this essay calls a "reactionary romance." This "romance" deemed Black self-determination an apocalypse-signaling antagonist against which the privileged body politic must continually and violently struggle in order to reproduce itself. It perversely drew on the rebellious actions of Black people as a way to enclose the prospect of Black freedom in a shroud of terror, rendering the suppression of Black self-determination an esteemed civic duty for the American citizen. This essay critically and historically analyzes this romance as it functions in archival documentation of the 1811 German Coast Uprising in southeastern Louisiana, the largest slave revolt in US history. The way that Louisiana planters told the story of the 1811 Uprising weaponized the reactionary romance to compel an expanding American empire (and its citizens) to protect and expand both the social and material structures of plantation slavery and the limits on moral and political imagination that attended these structures.
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AMERICAN QUARTERLY
AMERICAN QUARTERLY HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American Studies. The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts. This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture. Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American Studies.
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