Samantha Pinto

Infamous Bodies

Early Black Women's Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Samantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007838
• ISBN-10: 1478007834
• Artikelnr.: 58018142

Autorenporträt

Samantha Pinto

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories  1
1. Fantasies of Freedom: Phillis Wheatley and the "Deathless Fame" of Black
Feminist Thought  31
2. The Romance of Consent: Sally Hemings, Black Women's Sexuality, and the
Fundamental Vulnerability of Rights  65
3. Venus at Work: The Contracted Body and Fictions of Sarah Baartman  105
4. Civic Desire: Mary Seacole's Adventures in Black Citizenship  139
5. #DevelopmentGoals: Sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the Production
of the Black Feminist Political Subject  173
Conclusion. Black Feminist Celebrity and the Political Life of
Vulnerability  203
Notes  207
References  221
Index 243