Exemplary Exceptions

the singularity of Sojourner Truth and Jarena Lee and the nineteenth-century American society

Autores

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v32i61.45864

Palavras-chave:

Sojourner Truth, Jarena Lee, Excepcionalidade, Estereótipos

Resumo

Este texto visa compreender o paradoxal rótulo de excepcionalidade de Sojourner Truth e Jarena Lee a partir do que foi registrado em suas (auto)biografias e como foram retratadas e referidas nos jornais oitocentistas. A partir disso, investigamos a construção da raça e dos estereótipos pelos poderes hegemônicos brancos e expomos como essas mulheres desmantelaram a excepcionalidade enquanto forma de comparação de superioridade e inferioridade.

Biografia do Autor

  • Hanna Simões, UFMG

    Mestre em Letras: Estudos Literários na área de concentração Literaturas de Língua Inglesa e Bacharel em Ciências Sociais ambos pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

  • Marcel de Lima Santos, Professor Associado de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Ph.D. em Estudos Literários pela University of Nottingham, na Inglaterra (2003). Atualmente é Professor Associado de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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31-05-2023

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Dossiê - Literaturas africanas e afrodiaspóricas: escritas emancipatórias

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Exemplary Exceptions: the singularity of Sojourner Truth and Jarena Lee and the nineteenth-century American society . (2023). Revista Cerrados, 32(61), 168-180. https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v32i61.45864