Dispossessed Lives - Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Jane: Fugitivity, Space, and Structures of Control in Bridgetown

Chapter 2. Rachael and Joanna: Power, Historical Figuring, and Troubling Freedom

Chapter 3. Agatha: White Women Slaveowners and the Dialectic of Racialized Gender

Chapter 4. Molly: Enslaved Women, Condemnation, and Gendered Terror

Chapter 5. "Venus": Abolition Discourse, Gendered Violence, and the Archive

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Marisa J. Fuentes is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Zusammenfassung

Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marisa J Fuentes, Marisa J. Fuentes
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780812224184
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2418-4
• Seiten: 232
• Serien: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges