Gendered Resistance Sam Firman wearier and more generous wisdom

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Gendered Resistance Sam Firman wearier and more generous wisdomInspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty first. Each chapter uses Garner's example the real life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved and the opera Margaret Garner as a