Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights
ISBN: 9781478009283
Platform/Publisher: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: chapter
Subjects: African American Studies and Black Diaspora; Gender and Sexuality / Feminism and Women’s Studies; American Studies;

Samantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.

Samantha Pinto is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, author of Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic , and coeditor of Writing Beyond the State: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies .

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