Essays about: "black slave"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words black slave.

  1. 1. Everyday Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Autobiography

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Sara Calmius; [2024]
    Keywords : Resistance studies; Everyday resistance; Harriet Jacobs; Black motherhood; Antebellum America; Slavery;

    Abstract : This essay examines Harriet Jacobs’s autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from the perspective of resistance theory. The essay uses the analytical framework created by Anna Johansson and Stellan Vinthagen in Conceptualizing 'Everyday Resistance': A Transdisciplinary Approach (2020) to concretize and understand different resistance methods and how black women resisted while navigating in society as slaves and as mothers. READ MORE

  3. 2. Coming to Voice Through Capoeira : Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora

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    Author : Ana Da Conceição Paz; [2023]
    Keywords : Capoeira; Radical Openness; African diaspora; Embodiments; Ancestral; Resistance;

    Abstract : Capoeira is an African diasporic art form that developed in Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. This research explores the history of Capoeira and its contemporary engagement through an autoethnographic method. It follows the first-hand experience of being a black female researcher and a Capoeirista both in Europe and Brazil. READ MORE

  4. 3. Should we #CancelHamilton? Discourse of the enslaved in the broadway musical Hamilton

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Leo Hildebrand; [2021]
    Keywords : Hamilton; representation; identificiation; queer feminist durationality; ambivalence; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine how criticism of the Broadway musical Hamilton is received and argued about when it comes to the representation of certain characters. The overall research question is How are discursive productions of historical retelling and identification created by the musical Hamilton? and it will be answered by dividing the question to How does the debate surrounding Hamilton affect discourses around enslavement and slave owners? and How does the musical represent women of colour?. READ MORE

  5. 4. Crossing the River : An Example of Black Politics of Resistance

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Anders Wåke; [2021]
    Keywords : African diaspora; hybridity; unhomeliness; postcolonial; slavery; colonial discourse.;

    Abstract : Caryl Phillis’s novel Crossing the River tells a story of the African diaspora caused by the slave trade. The novel not only depicts the physical aspect of diasporic life, but also sheds light on the cognitive aspects. READ MORE

  6. 5. The African Presence and Limits of Double Consciousness in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Tanya Odenyo; [2021]
    Keywords : Double consciousness; representation; African diaspora; identity;

    Abstract : Set against the backdrop of the Transatlantic slave trade, Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River can be read as a novel which explores severed family ties and the intertwined relationship between the dominant and the subdued within the African diaspora. Questions concerning “race”, identity and representation can be traced in all the narratives and are also the focus of this essay. READ MORE