EN 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Harriet Ann Jacobs, Afrocentrism
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American women lived under; black women faced their own history: kind of abuse stigmatizes the women, not the men, after abolition this stigma remained and drove a wedge between black and white feminism. Mode of criticism hermeneutics: ancient greeks knew it, if you read a document outside your culture, it attached a certain experience, concerning interpretation especially of the bible or literary texts. Present feminist and anti-racist writers have a notion of freedom that relates to slavery. Race is a purely contextual reality; perception of black as a race is not founded on anything, this idea of a genus/continuity, strongly related to idea of purity is also dismissed. Hemingses of monticello by annette gorden reed: throws us into the purity code; why there is a silence, why. Jefferson can have a mistress: the(cid:396)e is (cid:374)o fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) t(cid:396)ee that o(cid:374)e (cid:272)ould put togethe(cid:396) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) reed"s research; records can only be traced through dated documents.
