Mary Grace Albanese (SUNY Binghamton)

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. It redefines energy and modernity by exploring how early Black transnational networks practiced energy across Haiti and the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781009314244
• ISBN-10: 1009314246
• Artikelnr.: 67864928

Autorenporträt

Mary Grace Albanese is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Binghamton. She was a 2019-2020 Fellow at the Cornell Society for the Humanities and received her PhD from Columbia University in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: modulating modernity
1. Powering the soul: queer energies in Haitian vodou
2. Marie Laveau's generational arts: healing and midwifery in New Orleans
3. Freedom's conduit: spiritual justice in 'Theresa, A Haytian Tale'
4. 'A Wandering Maniac': Sojourner Truth's demonic marronage
5. Mesmeric revolution: Hopkins's matrilineal Haiti
Coda: effluent futures.