Ghosts of slavery : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives / / Jenny Sharpe
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| Autore: |
Sharpe Jenny
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| Titolo: |
Ghosts of slavery : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives / / Jenny Sharpe
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West Indies In literature |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-181) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 power within the constraints of slavery. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ghosts of slavery |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9238-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910974461603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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