Dispossessed Lives
Author | : Marisa J. Fuentes |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812248227 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812248228 |
Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Dispossessed Lives by : Marisa J. Fuentes
Download or read book Dispossessed Lives written by Marisa J. Fuentes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly recounting the lives of enslaved women in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados, and their conditions of confinement through urban, legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, authorities, and the archive, Marisa J. Fuentes challenges how histories of vulnerable and invisible subjects are written.