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Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner

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Edited by Mary E. Frederickson and Delores M. Walters
2013
Published by: University of Illinois Press
Series: The New Black Studies Series
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Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter uses Garner's example--the real-life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved andthe opera Margaret Garner--as a thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States. 
 
Contributors are Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, Mary E. Frederickson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Carolyn Mazloomi, Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, Catherine Roma, Huda Seif, S. Pearl Sharp, Raquel Luciana de Souza, Jolene Smith, Veta Tucker, Delores M. Walters, Diana Williams, and Kristine Yohe.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. C-ii

Title Page

pp. iii-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

List of Figures

pp. vii-viii

Foreword

pp. ix-x

Preface

pp. xi-xx

Introduction: Re(dis)covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner

pp. 22-22

PART I: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDERED RESISTANCE

1. A Mother's Arithmetic: Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from Slavery to Freedom

pp. 25-48

2. Coerced but Not Subdued: The Gendered Resistance of Women Escaping Slavery

pp. 49-76

3. Secret Agents: Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist Battlegrounds

pp. 77-98

4. Enslaved Women's Resistance and Survival Strategies in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio" and Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Garner

pp. 99-114

5. Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance?

pp. 115-132

PART II: GLOBAL SLAVERY, HEALING, AND NEW VISIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

6. "Freedom Just Might be Possible": Suraj Kali's Moment of Decision

pp. 135-146

7. Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance: Experiences from Southern Yemen

pp. 147-170

8. Resurrecting Chica da Silva: Gender, Race, and Nation in Brazilian Popular Culture

pp. 171-190

9. The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence

pp. 191-205

10. Art and Memory: Healing Body, Mind, Spirit: A conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, S. Pearl Sharp, and Catherine Roma

pp. 206-222

Contributors

pp. 223-228

Index

pp. 229-236
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