Jessica A. Krug

Fugitive Modernities

Kisama and the Politics of Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

Jessica A. Krug traces the history and meaning of Kisama-a seventeenth-century fugitive slave community located in present-day Angola-by showing how it operated as a inspirational global symbol of resistance for fugitives on both sides of the Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001546
• ISBN-10: 1478001542
• Artikelnr.: 50447685

Autorenporträt

Jessica A. Krug

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Note on Cartography  xi
List of Archives and Abbreviations  xiii
Introduction. Fugitive Modernities: Chronotope, Epistemology, and
Subjectivity  1
1. Kafuxi Ambari and the People without State's History: Forging Kisama
Reputations, c. 1580-1630  31
2."They Publicize to the Neighboring Nations That the Arms of Your Majesty
Do Not Conquer": Fugitive Politics and Legitimacy, c. 1620-55  58
3. "The Husbands Having First Laid Down Their Lives in Their Defense":
Gender, Food, and Politics in the War of 1655-58  86
4. (Mis)Taken Identities: Kisama and the Politics of Naming in the Palenque
Limón, New Kingdom of Grenada, c. 1570-1634  111
5. Fugitive Angola: Toward a New History of Palmares  146
6. "The Ashes of Revolutionary Fires Burn Hot": Brazilian and Angolan
Nationalism and the "Colonial" and "Postcolonial" Life of the Kisama Meme,
c. 1700-Present  164
Conclusion. Fugitive Modernities in the Neoliberal Afterlife of the
Nation-State  187
Notes  195
Bibliography  241
Index  257