Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum America /

Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harrison, Renee K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
Temas:
Enslaved women > North America > Social conditions.
Enslaved women > Africa, West > Social conditions.
Women, Black > North America > Social conditions.
Slave narratives > North America > History and criticism.
Slave narratives > Africa, West > History and criticism.
Women, Black, in literature.
Femmes esclaves > Amérique du Nord > Conditions sociales.
Femmes esclaves > Afrique occidentale > Conditions sociales.
Femmes noires > Amérique du Nord > Conditions sociales.
Récits d'esclaves > Amérique du Nord > Histoire et critique.
Récits d'esclaves > Afrique occidentale > Histoire et critique.
Noires dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Race relations
Slave narratives
Women, Black, in literature
Women, Black > Social conditions
Enslaved women > Social conditions
Schwarze Frau
Ethnische Beziehungen
Sklaverei
North America > Race relations.
Amérique du Nord > Relations raciales.
West Africa
North America
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Ancestral Vibrations
  • pt. 1. Precolonial West Africa: Context and Perspectives
  • 1. "Dey Fooled Dem to Come": Seduction and Trickery in the African Slave Trade
  • 2. "Before the Arrival of the Good Ship Jesus": African Women in Precolonial West Africa
  • pt. 2. Historical Grotesque Realities
  • 3. "Trouble Done Bore Me Down": Intimate Violence against Enslaved Women
  • Enslaved Women and Domestic Violence: "Dey wuked me lak a dog an' beat me somepin tumble"
  • 4. "Dat Man Grabbed Me an' Strip Me Naked": Enslaved Women and Sexual Violence
  • 5. "In the Company of My Sisters": Violence among Women in the American Colonies
  • Enslaved Women and Sisterhood Violence: "Misses would beat and stomp away, with all the venom of a demon"
  • Enslaved Women and Sistah-hood Violence: "That woman was simply mean"
  • 6. "Fix Me Jesus": Enslaved Women and Self-Violence
  • pt. 3. Yearning for the Beautiful
  • 7. "However Far the Stream Flows It Never Forgets Its Source": Five Strategies of Subversion and Freedom
  • 8. "The Current Continues": Four More Strategies of Subversion and Freedom.

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