{"product_id":"black-prometheus-race-and-radicalism-in-the-age-of-atlantic-slavery","title":"Black Prometheus Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow 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\n\u003cbr\u003egeographical 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\n\u003cbr\u003efreedom 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-- isa profound debate about the means and ends of liberation in our globalized world. Tracing the titan's\n\u003cbr\u003erehabilitation 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\n\u003cbr\u003emodernity and to interrogate the Eurocentric and secularist assumptions of our deepest intellectual traditions of critique.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44082421563630,"sku":"9780190077792","price":76.79,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780190077792.jpg?v=1706207832","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/black-prometheus-race-and-radicalism-in-the-age-of-atlantic-slavery","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}