Fugitive Modernities : Kisama and the Politics of Freedom /

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During the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for those fleeing expanding states and the violence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The fugitives mounted effective resistance to European colonialism despite--or becaus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krug, Jessica A., 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sama (Angolan people)
Fugitive slaves.
HISTORY / Africa / West
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Esclaves fugitifs > Bresil.
Esclaves fugitifs > Colombie.
Esclaves fugitifs > Angola.
Fugitive slaves > Brazil.
Fugitive slaves > Colombia.
Fugitive slaves > Angola.
Colombia.
Brazil.
Angola.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Fugitive modernities: chronotope, epistemology, and subjectivity
  • Kafuxi Ambari and the people without state's history: forging Kisama reputations, c. 1580-1630
  • "They publicize to the neighboring nations that the arms of your majesty do not conquer": fugitive politics and legitimacy, c. 1620-55
  • "The husbands having first laid down their lives in their defense": gender, food, and politics in the war of 1655-58
  • (Mis)taken identities: Kisama and the politics of naming in the Palenque Limón, new kingdom of Grenada, c. 1570-1634
  • Fugitive Angola: toward a new history of Palmares
  • "The ashes of revolutionary fires burn hot": Brazilian and Angolan nationalism and the "colonial" and "postcolonial" life of the Kisama meme, c. 1700-present
  • Conclusion: Fugitive modernities in the neoliberal afterlife of the nation-state.

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