Infamous bodies early Black women's celebrity and the afterlives of rights
"INFAMOUS BODIES portrays five black women "celebrities" from the late-18th and 19th centuries whose histories and ongoing fame have generated new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Saartjie Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Bonetta have each be...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Durham ; London
Duke University Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "INFAMOUS BODIES portrays five black women "celebrities" from the late-18th and 19th centuries whose histories and ongoing fame have generated new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Saartjie Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Bonetta have each become crucial figures for black feminists, who have frequently re-imagined these women's public and private lives, celebrating them as subjects who complicate a binary understanding of agency and subjection. Centering black women's lives at the fulcrum of developing freedom and rights discourses in the US and Europe, Samantha Pinto seeks to rewrite the history of modern nationhood through stories of black female subjectivity. The book's five chapters trace the historical significance of these figures, as well as the contemporary cultural artworks and performances that have rendered them celebrities for black feminist study." |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 254 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits |
| ISBN: | 9781478008323 978-1-4780-0832-3 9781478007838 978-1-4780-0783-8 |