Exemplary Exceptions
the singularity of Sojourner Truth and Jarena Lee and the nineteenth-century American society
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Sojourner Truth, Jarena Lee, Excepcionalidade, EstereótiposResumen
This text aims at understanding Sojourner Truth and Jarena Lee’s paradoxical exceptional label according to what has been registered in their (auto)biographies and to how they have been portrayed and referred to in nineteenth-century newspapers. From this we investigate the constructedness of race and stereotypes by white hegemonic powers and expose how these women dismantled exceptionality as a necessary superior/inferior comparative form.
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