Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum America / Renee K. Harrison
- 作者： Harrison, Renee K
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- 出版： New York : Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] :Palgrave Macmillan 2009
- 叢書名： Black religion/womanist thought/social justice
- 主題： Women slaves--North America--Social conditions , Women slaves--Africa, West--Social conditions , Women, Black--North America--Social conditions , Slave narratives--North America--History and criticism , Slave narratives--Africa, West--History and criticism , Women, Black, in literature , North America--Race relations
- 版本：1st ed.
- ISBN： 9780230100664 、 023010066X
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- 書目註：The historical records and stories of enslaved African women have both creative and life-affirming resistance strategies for how women of the past have dealt with and healed from violence. This book draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave narratives to describe the depths of multi-dimensional oppression and violence in the lives of enslaved African women. Harrison investigates pre-colonial West and West Central African women's lives prior to European arrival in order to recover those African-derived aesthetic forms, cultural traditions, and religious practices that helped enslaved women combat violence and oppression. The nine strategies of resistance offered as modes of resistance employed by enslaved women are viable modes for modern-day women Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-263) and indexes
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- 系統號： 005162155 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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.
內容註
Introduction: Ancestral Vibrations -- 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 andSexual Violence -- In the Company of My Sisters: Violence among Women in American Colonies -- 'Misses would beat and stomp away, with all thevenom of a demon": Enslaved Women & Sisterhood Violence -- "That womanwas simply mean": Enslaved Women and Sistah-hood Violence -- "Fix Me Jesus": Enslaved Women and Self-Violence -- "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