How Long to Read Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

How Long Does it Take to Read Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 12 minutes to read Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and...

How long is Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America?

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya Hartman is 491 pages long, and a total of 123,241 words.

This makes it 166% the length of the average book. It also has 151% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 13 minutes to read Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America aloud.

What Reading Level is Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America?

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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