Description
When God Lost Her Tongue explores historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how Black women's transatlantic histories are re-imagined and politicized in our contemporary moment.
Connecting select historical case studies - from the Caribbean, the African continent, North America, and Europe - while also examining the retelling of these histories in the work of present-day writers and artists, Janell Hobson utilizes a Black feminist lens to rescue the narratives of African-descended women, which have been marginalized, erased, forgotten, and/or mis-remembered. African goddesses crossing the Atlantic with captive Africans. Women leaders igniting the Haitian Revolution. Unnamed Black women in European paintings. African women on different sides of the "door of no return" during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Even ubiquitous "Black queens" heralded and signified in a Beyoncé music video or a Janelle Monáe lyric. And then there are those whose names we will never forget, like the iconic Harriet Tubman.
This critical interdisciplinary intervention will be key reading for students and researchers studying African American women, Black feminisms, feminist methodologies, Africana studies, and women and gender studies.
Author: Janell Hobson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/30/2021
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780367198343
ISBN10: 0367198347
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies
About the Author
Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.
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