When God Lost Her Tongue Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures Series
When God Lost Her Tongue explores historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how Black women?s transatlantic histories are re-imagined and politicized in our contemporary moment.
Connecting select historical case studies ? from the Caribbean, the African continent, North America, and Europe ? while also examining the retelling of these histories in the work of present-day writers and artists, Janell Hobson utilizes a Black feminist lens to rescue the narratives of African-descended women, which have been marginalized, erased, forgotten, and/or mis-remembered. African goddesses crossing the Atlantic with captive Africans. Women leaders igniting the Haitian Revolution. Unnamed Black women in European paintings. African women on different sides of the "door of no return" during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Even ubiquitous "Black queens" heralded and signified in a Beyoncé music video or a Janelle Monáe lyric. And then there are those whose names we will never forget, like the iconic Harriet Tubman.
This critical interdisciplinary intervention will be key reading for students and researchers studying African American women, Black feminisms, feminist methodologies, Africana studies, and women and gender studies.
Introduction; Prelude; Chapter 1 A Meditation on Black Feminist Divinity; Chapter 2 Reframing Portraits of Black Womanhood; Chapter 3 Revolving Doors of No Return; Chapter 4 Cultural Currency and the Value of Harriet Tubman; Chapter 5 To Play the Queen, To Embody the Goddess; Postlude; Epilogue
Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.
Date de parution : 09-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 09-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de When God Lost Her Tongue :
Mots-clés :
Pop Star; The Black Atlantic World; Transatlantic Slave Trade; Black Feminism; Free Women; Erzulie; Captive Africans; Haitian Revolution; Black Women; Black Women's Transatlantic histories; Black Beauty; African-descended women; Black Goddesses; Bois Caiman; Mami Wata; Black Feminist; Underground Railroad; Freedom Seekers; Nicki Minaj; Cape Coast Castle; Kenwood House; King George III; Film Belle; Veiled Deity; Zong Case; Queen Nefertiti; Danish National Archives; Veteran’s Pension; African Royalty; Girodet; Le Tour Du Monde