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Ghosts of slavery : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives / Jenny Sharpe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharpe, Jenny.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West Indian literature (English)--History and criticism.
- West Indian literature (English).
- Slavery in literature.
- Women, Black--West Indies--Biography--History and criticism.
- Women, Black.
- Enslaved women--West Indies--Biography--History and criticism.
- Enslaved women.
- Slave rebellions--West Indies--Historiography.
- Slave rebellions.
- Women, Black--West Indies--Intellectual life.
- Enslaved women--West Indies--Intellectual life.
- Enslaved persons' writings--History and criticism.
- Enslaved persons' writings.
- Women and literature--West Indies.
- Women and literature.
- Women, Black, in literature.
- West Indies--In literature.
- West Indies.
- Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797. Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam.
- Stedman, John Gabriel.
- Prince, Mary. History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave.
- Prince, Mary.
- Joanna, active 18th century--In literature.
- Joanna.
- Prince, Mary--In literature.
- Nanny--In literature.
- Nanny.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9238-6
- OCLC:
- 191938825
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