Johnson Jessica Marie Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World 9780812252385

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Автор: Johnson Jessica Marie
Название: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780812252385
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

ISBN-10: 0812252381
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 360
Вес: 0.66 кг.
Дата издания: 31.07.2020
Серия: Early american studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 15 illus.
Размер: 161 x 237 x 30
Подзаголовок: Black women, intimacy, and freedom in the atlantic world
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Поставляется из: Англии
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The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures.
The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slaverys rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship—husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy—corporeal, carnal, quotidian—tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world.
Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black womens experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black womens practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction. The Women in the Water
Chapter 1. Tastemakers: Intimacy, Slavery, and Power in Senegambia
Chapter 2. Born of This Place: Kinship, Violence, and the Pinets' Overlapping Diasporas
Chapter 3. La Traversée: Gender

Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, Johnson Jessica Marie