Format:
xxvi, 187 p. S.
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816637229
,
0816637237
Content:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-181) and index
Content:
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
Note:
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; Index
,
Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816637225
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ghosts of Slavery : A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives
Language:
English
