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The mulatta concubine : terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic / Lisa Ze Winters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winters, Lisa Ze, author.
- Series:
- Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial women--United States--History.
- Multiracial women.
- Multiracial women--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
- Free African Americans--Social conditions.
- Free African Americans.
- African American women--Social conditions.
- African American women.
- Black people--Race identity--Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Black people.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Atlantic Ocean Region--Race relations--History.
- Atlantic Ocean Region.
- African diaspora.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Popular and academic representations of free mulatta concubines repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men. In The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora and that these depictions offer evidence of the dimensions of freedom within Atlantic slave societies. Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers' narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure's manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Echo and the myth of origins
- Intimate acts
- Authority, kinship, and possession
- Mapping freedom and belonging.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820348964
- 0820348961
- OCLC:
- 912507818
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