...Sara-Maria Sorentino Recent texts in the historiography of slavery have focused on slave-owning women in an attempt to overturn the paradigm of the benevolent mistress. While “benevolence” has silenced and exceptionalized mistresses’ violence, newer interpretations draw from slave testimony...

... historiography of slavery confirmed not merely as matriarchs but also as emasculating Sapphires and bitter, man-hating mothers who drive away their mates and psychologically damage their sons. The best way to save boys and men from the destructive effects of female domination, Moynihan concluded...

... achieved through such tools as the mirror. In this juncture lies a potential for sex itself to become a kind of historiography, perhaps even an “ahistoriography” (Rohy). I recognize that this position seems diametrically...

...Anjali Arondekar Sexuality endures as an object of historical recovery through a poetics of melancholia, an irresolvable longing for loss that refuses all forms of consolation. My meditations call upon a historiography of sexuality in South Asia that pushes against the binding energies...

.... 1953–74. ———. The Interpretation of Dreams . 1900 . The Standard Edition. Vols. 4 and 5. 1 -627. Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America . New York: Oxford up, 1997 . Herron, Carolivia. Thereafter Johnnie . New York...

.... Quicksand and Passing . By Nella Larsen. Ed. Deborah E. McDowell. New Brunswick:Rutgers up, 1986 . ix -xxv. Nicholson, Linda, ed. The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory . New York: Routledge, 1997 . Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death. A Comparative Study . Cambridge: Harvard up...

... projects and, second, a set of conversations emerging from an array of fields including critical legal studies and black feminist historiography thinking critically about the idiom of consent in precisely the moment that consent—particularly “enthusiastic” affirmative consent—has been hailed as how sexual...

... a constitutive fissure in the meaning of equality in ways that contributed to national cohesion even in the face of such national institutions as slavery. The positive bonds of identity that emerge in a system of conflict take form through...

... of slavery and the Civil Rights movement out ofwhich arises the Critical Race Theory position, in contrast, emphasizes the extent to which, historically, rights discourse has designated who does and does not count as a member of human society: ifrights signal personhood, then being without them is not merely...

... in the early twentieth century and a colonial variant of these representational regimes as they traveled across the Pacific-a difference that hinged on the presence of a history of African slavery in the former and its absence in the latter. In a colonial setting permeated by a language of sentimentwhich made...

... metaphysical origin) is rendered as primitive , suggesting a progressive-developmental schema with all the baggage of imperialist historiography that the term implies ( Marx 873 ). In calling for a new standard English translation of Marx, Wolfgang Fritz Haug has noted that Fowkes makes something...

... explicitly supported slavery), and locat- ing the importance of the debate in its contribution to preprofessional science’s enabling break with theological naturalism.21 The aim in historical accounts of this episode—to validate...

..., reconstruction, even redemption" (206). In trying to link Victorian sexuality to British imperialism, then, I will be inverting the usual priorities of cause and effect maintained by mainstream modern historiography. By so doing, however, I will simply be taking up the logic England used to describe other...

..., the ideological determination of the "concrete," and spins the narrative of the development of the money-jorm; with the Nietzsche who offers us genealogy in place of historiography, the Foucault who plots the construction of "counter-memory, " the Barthes of semiotropy and the Derrida of "affirmative...

... of becoming French signifi ed all three insofar as the French nation stood for all three. Emblematic in this regard is the nineteenth-century assimilationist Jewish historiography that cast the Revolution of 1789 as the “modern Passover...

... was calculated not to interfere with their actions. We remember that Little Eva’s beautiful death, which Stowe presents as part of a protest against slavery, in no way hinders the working of that system...

... that Casement exposed through his reports were predicated on a weighted colonial debt economy, otherwise known as indentured slavery, wherein the colonized never managed to turn in enough rubber crop to crawl out from under the thumb of the colonizer, usually due to some trickery on behalf of the latter...

... 81 of present-day India, not join the great war for liberating the country from the chains of slavery imposed by the foreigners?” (266). Her invocation of Rajput heroism carries a double valence. While the image of Rajput...