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UNINA9910784400503321 |
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Sharpe Jenny |
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Titolo |
Ghosts of slavery [[electronic resource] ] : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives / / Jenny Sharpe |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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West Indian literature (English) - History and criticism |
Slavery in literature |
Women, Black - West Indies - Biography - History and criticism |
Enslaved women - West Indies - Biography - History and criticism |
Slave rebellions - West Indies - Historiography |
Women, Black - West Indies - Intellectual life |
Enslaved women - West Indies - Intellectual life |
Enslaved persons' writings - History and criticism |
Women and literature - West Indies |
Women, Black, in literature |
West Indies In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-181) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Haunting of History; 1. "The Rebels Old Obeah Woman": History as Spirit Possession; 2. "An Incomparable Nurse": The Obi of Domesticity; 3. "Our History Was Truly Broken": Writing Back to a Slave Past; 4. "A Very Troublesome Woman": Who Speaks for the Morality of Slave Women?; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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While some scholars imply that only the struggle for freedom was legitimate, Jenny Sharpe complicates the linear narrative-from slavery to freedom and literacy-that emerged from the privileging of autobiographical accounts like that of Frederick Douglass. She challenges a paradigm that equates agency with resistance and self-determination, and introduces new ways to examine negotiations for |
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