Infamous Bodies
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Infamous Bodies

Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights

  1. 265 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Infamous Bodies

Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights

About this book

The countless retellings and reimaginings of the private and public lives of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta have transformed them into difficult cultural and black feminist icons. In Infamous Bodies, Samantha Pinto explores how histories of these black women and their ongoing fame generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Drawing on a variety of media, cultural, legal, and critical sources, Pinto shows how the narratives surrounding these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century celebrities shape key political concepts such as freedom, consent, contract, citizenship, and sovereignty. Whether analyzing Wheatley's fame in relation to conceptions of race and freedom, notions of consent in Hemings's relationship with Thomas Jefferson, or Baartman's ability to enter into legal contracts, Pinto reveals the centrality of race, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political rights. In so doing, she contends that feminist theories of black women's vulnerable embodiment can be the starting point for future progressive political projects.

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Information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781478008323
9781478007838
eBook ISBN
9781478009283
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Critique littéraire

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. INTRODUCTION. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories
  5. 1. FANTASIES OF FREEDOM. Phillis Wheatley and the “Deathless Fame” of Black Feminist Thought
  6. 2. THE ROMANCE OF CONSENT. Sally Hemings, Black Women’s Sexuality, and the Fundamental Vulnerability of Rights
  7. 3. VENUS AT WORK. The Contracted Body and Fictions of Sarah Baartman
  8. 4. CIVIC DESIRE. Mary Seacole’s Adventures in Black Citizenship
  9. 5. #DEVELOPMENTGOALS. Sovereignty, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, and the Production of the Black Feminist Political Subject
  10. CONCLUSION. Black Feminist Celebrity and the Political Life of Vulnerability
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index

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