{"product_id":"9780190628666","title":"Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eBlack Prometheus \u003c\/em\u003egives 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, \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106599551216,"sku":"9780190628666","price":37.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780190628666_p0.jpg?v=1763659660","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780190628666","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}