The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic Contributor(s): Ze Winters, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820348961 ISBN-13: 9780820348964 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $114.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - 19th Century - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - History | Women |
Dewey: 305.488 |
LCCN: 2015013510 |
Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure's centrality to the practices and production of diaspora. Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gor e Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers' narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure's manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ze Winters, Lisa: - LISA ZE WINTERS is an associate professor of English and African American studies at Wayne State University.Rael, Patrick: - PATRICK RAEL is a professor of history at Bowdoin College and one of the general editors of the Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 series. His books include Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North and African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. Rael is an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer, 2010-2015. |