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Ghosts of slavery [[electronic resource] ] : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives / / Jenny Sharpe



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Autore: Sharpe Jenny Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ghosts of slavery [[electronic resource] ] : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives / / Jenny Sharpe Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2003
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
Women slaves - West Indies - Biography - History and criticism
Slave insurrections - West Indies - Historiography
Women, Black - West Indies - Intellectual life
Women slaves - West Indies - Intellectual life
Slaves' writings - History and criticism
Women and literature - West Indies
Women, Black, in literature
Soggetto geografico: West Indies In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-9238-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452226403321
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