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Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women's Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781478009283 |
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Publisher: | Duke University Press |
Publication date: | 08/10/2020 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 264 |
File size: | 29 MB |
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About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction. 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
What People are Saying About This
“Infamous Bodies is required reading for scholars of black feminist theory. This ambitious, provocative book interrogates female celebrity as a crucial genre through which black women come into political view. Samantha Pinto's careful and thoughtful wrestling with black women celebrities who have become—or perhaps always were—‘difficult’ in and for black feminist studies requires that scholars probe the very meaning of the ‘political’ for black feminist thought. Black feminist theory will be both challenged and transformed by Pinto's careful and counterintuitive readings of black women's representation and by Pinto’s call for the necessary centrality of vulnerability to our scholarly and political work.”