03492nam 2200769 a 450 991078440050332120230323191411.00-8166-9238-6(CKB)1000000000346869(EBL)310607(OCoLC)191938825(SSID)ssj0000279897(PQKBManifestationID)11228834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279897(PQKBWorkID)10268158(PQKB)11218353(MdBmJHUP)muse39216(Au-PeEL)EBL310607(CaPaEBR)ebr10151205(CaONFJC)MIL522621(MiAaPQ)EBC310607(EXLCZ)99100000000034686920020819d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGhosts of slavery[electronic resource] a literary archaeology of Black women's lives /Jenny SharpeMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20031 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3723-7 0-8166-3722-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-181) and index.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; IndexWhile 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 power within the constraints of slavery.West Indian literature (English)History and criticismSlavery in literatureWomen, BlackWest IndiesBiographyHistory and criticismEnslaved womenWest IndiesBiographyHistory and criticismSlave rebellionsWest IndiesHistoriographyWomen, BlackWest IndiesIntellectual lifeEnslaved womenWest IndiesIntellectual lifeEnslaved persons' writingsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureWest IndiesWomen, Black, in literatureWest IndiesIn literatureWest Indian literature (English)History and criticism.Slavery in literature.Women, BlackBiographyHistory and criticism.Enslaved womenBiographyHistory and criticism.Slave rebellionsHistoriography.Women, BlackIntellectual life.Enslaved womenIntellectual life.Enslaved persons' writingsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureWomen, Black, in literature.810.9/353Sharpe Jenny1476974MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784400503321Ghosts of slavery3691804UNINA