Marisa J. Fuentes

Dispossessed Lives

Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

• Early American Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224184
• ISBN-10: 0812224183
• Artikelnr.: 49958318

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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