Of "Sound" and "Unsound" Body and Mind: Reconfiguring the Heroic Portrait of Harriet Tubman.
The article focuses on reexamination of the historic leader Harriet Tubman, whose iconic status has tended to slough off images of her disability. It mentions historical subject who possessed specific disabilities developed from her life as a black woman and a slave and reconstruction of Tubman's su...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 193 - 219 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2019
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on reexamination of the historic leader Harriet Tubman, whose iconic status has tended to slough off images of her disability. It mentions historical subject who possessed specific disabilities developed from her life as a black woman and a slave and reconstruction of Tubman's subjectivity, and Hobson reveals deeper insight into this real-life woman. It also mentions romanticism and mysticism and networks of communication and resistance. |
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