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\"Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888\"-- Provided by publisher.

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.

This article explores one of the most incidental, and thus least studied, equivocations in Michel Foucault’s work: his understan¬ding of slavery in relation to his conceptualizations of power, domination, resistance and freedom. The article also considers the heuristic value of these equivocations for thinking about the regimes of the large slave plantations of the Americas. Does slavery describe a relation of power or a state of domination? What distinct analytical and ethical implications would this distinction have upon examining the problem of freedom under subjugation? Through a careful exegesis of two late instances in the work of the French thinker, “Subject and power” (1982) and “The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom” (1984), this article identifies the conceptual ambiguities that accompany his brief observations on slavery, and takes them as a starting point for highlighting a series of moments in which games of power during the period of slavery in the Americas show the limits that were intuited, yet not theorized, by Foucault; limits which are no other than extreme violence and death. This is exemplified through a discussion of certain paradoxes in the phenomena of the fugitive slaves (cimarronaje) and of the aporias, that were manifested through the uses of the Christian pastoral as a means of subjection at the beginnings of the Cuban slave plantations during the 18th century – and in dialogue with their symbolization in art. En este artículo se explora uno de los equívocos más incidentales y, por ello mismo, menos estudiados en el pensamiento de Michel Foucault: su entendimiento de la esclavitud con relación a sus conceptualizaciones sobre el poder, la dominación, la resistencia y la libertad; y se considera el valor heurístico de estos equívocos para pensar los regímenes de las grandes plantaciones esclavistas de las Américas. ¿Nombra la esclavitud una relación de poder o un estado de dominación? ¿Qué distintas implicaciones analíticas y éticas tendría esta distinción al abordar la problemática de la libertad bajo la subyugación? A través de una exégesis cuidadosa de dos instancias tardías en la obra del pensador francés, “El sujeto y el poder” (1982) y “La ética del cuidado de uno mismo como práctica de la libertad” (1984), en este trabajo se identifican las ambigüedades conceptuales que acompañan sus fugaces observaciones en torno a la esclavitud y se las toma como punto de partida para destacar una serie de momentos en los que los juegos de poder bajo la dominación esclavista de las Américas muestran los límites intuidos pero no teorizados por Foucault, y que no son otros que la violencia extrema y la muerte. Ello es ejemplificado mediante la discusión de ciertas paradojas en los fenómenos del cimarronaje y de las aporías que se manifestaron en los usos de la pastoral cristiana como medio de sujeción en los inicios de las plantaciones esclavistas cubanas durante el siglo XVIII, y en diálogo con sus simbolizaciones en el arte. Neste artigo, explora-se um dos equívocos mais incidentais e, por isso mesmo, menos estudados no pensamento de Michel Foucault: seu entendimento da escravidão com relação a suas conceitualizações sobre o poder, a dominação, a resistência e a liberdade; considera-se o valor heurístico desses equívocos para pensar nos regimes das grandes plantações escravistas das Américas. A escravidão nomeia uma relação de poder ou um estado de dominação? Que diferentes implicações analíticas e éticas esta diferenciação teria ao abordar a problemática da liberdade sob a subjugação? Por meio de uma exegese cuidadosa de duas instâncias tardias na obra do pensador francês, “O sujeito e o poder” (1982) e “A ética do cuidado de si como prática da liberdade” (1984), neste trabalho, identificam-se as ambiguidades conceituais que acompanham suas fugazes observações sobre a escravidão para serem tomadas como ponto de partida para destacar uma série de momentos nos quais os jogos de poder sob a dominação escravista das Américas mostram os limites intuídos, mas não teorizados por Foucault, e que não são outros senão a violência extrema e a morte. Isso é exemplificado mediante a discussão de certos paradoxos nos fenômenos dos escravos fugitivos e das aporias que se manifestaram nos usos da pastoral cristã como meio de sujeição no início das plantações escravistas cubanas do século XVIII – no diálogo com suas simbolizações na arte.

Herencia (meaning \"inheritance\" or \"heritage\") is the first anthology to bring together literature spanning the entire history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present.

This article explores one of the most incidental, and thus least studied, equivocations in Michel Foucault's work: his understanding of slavery in relation to his conceptualizations of power, domination, resistance and freedom. The article also considers the heuristic value of these equivocations for thinking about the regimes of the large slave plantations of the Americas. Does slavery describe a relation of power or a state of domination? What distinct analytical and ethical implications would this distinction have upon examining the problem of freedom under subjugation? Through a careful exegesis of two late instances in the work of the French thinker, \"Subject and power\" (1982) and \"The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom\" (1984), this article identifies the conceptual ambiguities that accompany his brief observations on slavery, and takes them as a starting point for highlighting a series of moments in which games of power during the period of slavery in the Americas show the limits that were intuited, yet not theorized, by Foucault; limits which are no other than extreme violence and death. This is exemplified through a discussion of certain paradoxes in the phenomena of the fugitive slaves (cimarronaje) and of the aporias, that were manifested through the uses of the Christian pastoral as a means of subjection at the beginnings of the Cuban slave plantations during the 18th century -- and in dialogue with their symbolization in art. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores one of the most incidental, and thus least studied, equivocations in Michel Foucault's work: his understan-ding of slavery in relation to his conceptualizations of power, domination, resistance and freedom. The article also considers the heuristic value of these equivocations for thinking about the regimes of the large slave plantations of the Americas. Does slavery describe a relation of power or a state of domination? What distinct analytical and ethical implications would this distinction have upon examining the problem of freedom under subjugation? Through a careful exegesis of two late instances in the work of the French thinker, \"Subject and power\" (1982) and \"The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom\" (1984), this article identifies the conceptual ambiguities that accompany his brief observations on slavery, and takes them as a starting point for highlighting a series of moments in which games of power during the period of slavery in the Americas show the limits that were intuited, yet not theorized, by Foucault; limits which are no other than extreme violence and death. This is exemplified through a discussion of certain paradoxes in the phenomena of the fugitive slaves (cimarronaje) and of the aporias, that were manifested through the uses of the Christian pastoral as a means of subjection at the beginnings of the Cuban slave plantations during the 18th century - and in dialogue with their symbolization in art.

ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: This article explores one of the most incidental, and thus least studied, equivocations in Michel Foucault's work: his understanding of slavery in relation to his conceptualizations of power, domination, resistance and freedom. The article also considers the heuristic value of these equivocations for thinking about the regimes of the large slave plantations of the Americas. Does slavery describe a relation of power or a state of domination? What distinct analytical and ethical implications would this distinction have upon examining the problem of freedom under subjugation? Through a careful exegesis of two late instances in the work of the French thinker, \"Subject and power\" (1982) and \"The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom\" (1984), this article identifies the conceptual ambiguities that accompany his brief observations on slavery, and takes them as a starting point for highlighting a series of moments in which games of power during the period of slavery in the Americas show the limits that were intuited, yet not theorized, by Foucault; limits which are no other than extreme violence and death. This is exemplified through a discussion of certain paradoxes in the phenomena of the fugitive slaves (cimarronaje) and of the aporias, that were manifested through the uses of the Christian pastoral as a means of subjection at the beginnings of the Cuban slave plantations during the 18th century -- and in dialogue with their symbolization in art. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores one of the most incidental, and thus least studied, equivocations in Michel Foucault's work: his understan¬ding of slavery in relation to his conceptualizations of power, domination, resistance and freedom. The article also considers the heuristic value of these equivocations for thinking about the regimes of the large slave plantations of the Americas. Does slavery describe a relation of power or a state of domination? What distinct analytical and ethical implications would this distinction have upon examining the problem of freedom under subjugation? Through a careful exegesis of two late instances in the work of the French thinker, \"Subject and power\" (1982) and \"The ethics of care of the self as a practice of freedom\" (1984), this article identifies the conceptual ambiguities that accompany his brief observations on slavery, and takes them as a starting point for highlighting a series of moments in which games of power during the period of slavery in the Americas show the limits that were intuited, yet not theorized, by Foucault; limits which are no other than extreme violence and death. This is exemplified through a discussion of certain paradoxes in the phenomena of the fugitive slaves (cimarronaje) and of the aporias, that were manifested through the uses of the Christian pastoral as a means of subjection at the beginnings of the Cuban slave plantations during the 18th century - and in dialogue with their symbolization in art. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]