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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hickman, Jared.     Subjects     Prometheus (Greek deity)     Prometheus (Greek deity) -- In literature.     Mythology, Greek, in literature.     Mythology, Classical, in literature.     Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hickman, Jared.       by title:      Black Prometheus : r...         MARC Display

Black Prometheus : race and radicalism in the age of Atlantic slavery / Jared Hickman. by Hickman, Jared. New York : Oxford University Press, [2017] Subjects Prometheus (Greek deity)   Prometheus (Greek deity) -- In literature.   Mythology, Greek, in literature.   Mythology, Classical, in literature.   Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History. ISBN:  9780190272586 (cloth) 0190272589 (cloth) Description:  x, 528 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents:  Part I: Historical conditions and contexts of Black Prometheanism. Globalization and the gods : a theory of race and -- or as -- modernity -- The terms of Prometheus's liberation : romanticism, slavery, and the Titan's triumph -- Part II: Prometheus of Africa. Africa versus the absolute : idealism and its others -- The Afro-Promethean "science of the stars" : toward a new metahistory of African survivals -- Part III: Prometheus of Caucasus. Rebinding Prometheus to the Caucasus : idealism's other solution -- Iman Shamil, or the modern Prometheus of Caucasus -- Part IV: A literary history of slave rebellion. Rebellious fictions : Black Prometheus and the undoing of novelistic form -- Byronic abolitionism. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 292.2113 Hi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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