R. Harrison
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2009
9780230618466
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
2009
ISBN13: 9780230618466
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
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 enslaved women combat violence and oppression.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780230618466
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: Ancestral Vibrations PART I: PRE-COLONIAL WEST AFRICA: CONTEXT& PERSPECTIVES Seduction and Trickery in the African Slave Trade Before the Arrival of the Good 'Trouble done bore me down': Intimate Violence against Enslaved Women 'Dey wuked me lak a dog an' beat me somepin terrible': Enslaved Women and Domestic Violence 'Dat man grabbed me an' strip me naked': Enslaved Women and Sexual Violence In the Company of My Sisters: Violence among Women in American Colonies 'Misses would beat and stomp away, with all the venom of a demon': Enslaved Women& Sisterhood Violence 'That woman was simply mean': Enslaved Women and Sistah-hood Violence 'Fix Me Jesus': Enslaved Women and Self-Violence PART II: YEARNING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE ART OF RESISTANCE 'However far the stream flows it never forgets its source': Five Strategies of Subversion and Freedom The Current Continues: Four More Strategies of Subversion and Freedom