Ghosts of slavery : a literary archaeology of Black women's lives

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While some scholars imply that only the struggle for freedom was legitimate, Jenny Sharpe complicates the linear narrative--from slavery to freedom and literacy--that emerged from the privileging of autobiographical accounts like that of Frederick Douglass. She challenges a paradigm that equates age...

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Main Author: Sharpe, Jenny (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Subjects:
Stedman, John Gabriel, > 1744-1797. > Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam.
Prince, Mary. > History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave.
Joanna, > active 18th century > In literature.
Prince, Mary > In literature.
Nanny > In literature.
West Indian literature (English) > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Women, Black > West Indies > Biography > History and criticism.
Enslaved women > West Indies > Biography > History and criticism.
Slave rebellions > West Indies > Historiography.
Women, Black > West Indies > Intellectual life.
Enslaved women > West Indies > Intellectual life.
Enslaved persons' writings > History and criticism.
Women and literature > West Indies.
Women, Black, in literature.
West Indies > In literature.
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