Wake

Autor*innen

• Rebecca Hall
• Robyn Neild

Parameter

• 208 Seiten
• 8 Lesestunden

• Autobiografien und Memoiren
• Biografien & Memoiren
• Feminismus
• Geschichte
• Sachliteratur

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This graphic novel "brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, Wake reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity ... [The book] offers ... insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black woman in today's America; it is a historiography that illuminates both the challenges and the necessity of uncovering the true stories of slavery; and it is an overdue reckoning with slavery in New York City where two of these armed revolts took place"--

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Einband: Hardcover