Samantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.
Samantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.
Samantha Pinto is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, author of Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic, and coeditor of Writing beyond the State: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories 1 1. Fantasies of Freedom: Phillis Wheatley and the "Deathless Fame" of Black Feminist Thought 31 2. The Romance of Consent: Sally Hemings, Black Women's Sexuality, and the Fundamental Vulnerability of Rights 65 3. Venus at Work: The Contracted Body and Fictions of Sarah Baartman 105 4. Civic Desire: Mary Seacole's Adventures in Black Citizenship 139 5. #DevelopmentGoals: Sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the Production of the Black Feminist Political Subject 173 Conclusion. Black Feminist Celebrity and the Political Life of Vulnerability 203 Notes 207 References 221 Index 243
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories 1 1. Fantasies of Freedom: Phillis Wheatley and the "Deathless Fame" of Black Feminist Thought 31 2. The Romance of Consent: Sally Hemings, Black Women's Sexuality, and the Fundamental Vulnerability of Rights 65 3. Venus at Work: The Contracted Body and Fictions of Sarah Baartman 105 4. Civic Desire: Mary Seacole's Adventures in Black Citizenship 139 5. #DevelopmentGoals: Sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the Production of the Black Feminist Political Subject 173 Conclusion. Black Feminist Celebrity and the Political Life of Vulnerability 203 Notes 207 References 221 Index 243
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