Caetana Says No : Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Approaches to the Americas
ISBN-10
0521893534
ISBN-13
9780521893534
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 5th, 2002
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
336 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 13.50 x 1.30 cms
Ksh 4,150.00
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Two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious family - fight against the men in their lives. Through these small histories Lauderdale Graham casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male. This book was first published in 2002.
This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman struggling to avoid an unwanted husband; the woman of privilege assuming a patriarch's role to endow a family of her former slaves with the means for a free life. But these women's stories cannot be told without also recalling how their decisions drew them ever more firmly into the orbits of the worldly and influential men who exercised power in their lives. These are stories with a twist: in this society of radically skewed power, Lauderdale Graham reveals that more choices existed for all sides than we first imagine. Through these small histories she casts new light on larger meanings of slave and free, female and male.
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