Draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe oppression in the lives of enslaved African women. Investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival to recover the cultural traditions and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression.
Autorentext
Renee K. Harrison is Assistant Professor of African American and U.S. Religious History at Howard University School of Divinity, USA.
Inhalt
Introduction: Ancestral Vibrations PART I: PRE-COLONIAL WEST AFRICA: CONTEXT& PERSPECTIVES Seduction and Trickery in the African Slave Trade Before the Arrival of the Good 'Trouble done bore me down': Intimate Violence against Enslaved Women 'Dey wuked me lak a dog an' beat me somepin terrible': Enslaved Women and Domestic Violence 'Dat man grabbed me an' strip me naked': Enslaved Women and Sexual Violence In the Company of My Sisters: Violence among Women in American Colonies 'Misses would beat and stomp away, with all the venom of a demon': Enslaved Women& Sisterhood Violence 'That woman was simply mean': Enslaved Women and Sistah-hood Violence 'Fix Me Jesus': Enslaved Women and Self-Violence PART II: YEARNING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE ART OF RESISTANCE 'However far the stream flows it never forgets its source': Five Strategies of Subversion and Freedom The Current Continues: Four More Strategies of Subversion and Freedom
Titel
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America
Autor
EAN
9780230100664
ISBN
978-0-230-10066-4
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
28.09.2009
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.27 MB
Anzahl Seiten
282
Jahr
2009
Untertitel
Englisch
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