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The Body as Evidence: Gender and Resistance in Mary Prince's Narrative…
The Body as Evidence: Gender and Resistance in Mary Prince's Narrative
Narrative Agency
Mary Prince = first slave to share her story.
Abolitionist publication in a deeply censored and Christian society.
Agency connotes the ideas of "will and intent", impossible due to chattel slavery.
Voice and Authenticity
Prince's agency is dismissed, due to Thomas Pringle's editing.
Repetitions in first - person narrative are surviving authentic worlds that survived Pringle's editing.
No exaggeration of the historical aspect of the testimony.
Thinking back to Genre: Testimonio and Autobiography
Testimonio
Rejects western objectivity associated with liberal humanism.
Embraces foreground learning of lived oppression.
History and Spatiality
Prince situates herself into and writes herself into history.
Spatiotemporal regulation is prominent in the novel's first paragraph.
Education in Prince's Narrative
Access to education was near impossible for slaves.
Prince received education from Fanny, which was not meant for a slave.
Prince's Early Life
Prince encounters Hetty, a French black slave.
Hetty and Prince = close mother - daughter dynamic.
Othermothering
Black women care for children who are not immediately their own.
Vital for understanding the varied layers of resistance in Black communities.
The Pained Body
Mary Prince suffered both emotional and sexual abuse.
Surplus enslavement of women lead to the sexual exploitation of many female slaves.
Emotional words and feelings describe sexual abuse, not explicit descriptions.
Counter - Narratives
Counter - narrative to capitalist depictions of the Caribbean as a readily available site for consumption.
Prince's life story = abolitionist counter - narrative against the pro - slavery doctrines of the time.
Ordinary Rebellions
Myriad of robust ways black people asserted their own humanity.
Black slaves showing kindness to each other = displays mundane rebellions against slavery.
Continued Displacement and Obstacles
Slavery was still legal in the British colonies, despite being illegalized in England.
Mary risked being enslaved against if she tried to return to British soil.
Libel lawsuits filed against Mary's slavery account.