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Dispossessed Lives

- Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Af: Marisa J. Fuentes Engelsk Paperback

Dispossessed Lives

- Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Af: Marisa J. Fuentes Engelsk Paperback
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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women''s punishments. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women.
Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women''s bodies, in life and in death. By vividly recounting enslaved life through the experiences of individual women and illuminating their conditions of confinement through the legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, colonial authorities, and the archive, Fuentes challenges the way we write histories of vulnerable and often invisible subjects.

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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women''s punishments. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women.
Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women''s bodies, in life and in death. By vividly recounting enslaved life through the experiences of individual women and illuminating their conditions of confinement through the legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, colonial authorities, and the archive, Fuentes challenges the way we write histories of vulnerable and often invisible subjects.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 232
ISBN-13: 9780812224184
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0812224183
Udg. Dato: 12 mar 2018
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 230mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato: 12 mar 2018
Forfatter(e): Marisa J. Fuentes
Forfatter(e) Marisa J. Fuentes


Kategori United States of America, USA


ISBN-13 9780812224184


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 232


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 230mm


Højde 154mm


Udg. Dato 12 mar 2018


Oplagsdato 12 mar 2018


Forlag University of Pennsylvania Press