The Mulatta Concubine : Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic /

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Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic id...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Winters, Lisa Ze (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Racially mixed women.
Race relations.
Free African Americans > Social conditions.
Black people > Race identity.
African diaspora.
African American women > Social conditions.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Noires americaines > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains affranchis > Conditions sociales.
Metisses > Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire.
Metisses > États-Unis > Histoire.
Black people > Race identity > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Racially mixed women > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Racially mixed women > United States > History.
United States.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Atlantique, Region de l' > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities within Atlantic slave societies."
"Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora and that these depictions offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of freedom within Atlantic slave societies. Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers' narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure's manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780820348971

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