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DESCRIPTION:Please register on Eventbrite. Registration mandatory.\n\nIn “C
 onstructing Black Women’s Historical Knowledge” (2000)\, historian Afua Co
 oper has stated\, “Black women’s history has been at worst invisible\, and
  at best marginal in the history of all Canadian histories.” Cooper has no
 tably fleshed out the story of Marie-Joseph Angélique\, a slave accused of
 —and subsequently hanged for—burning down half of Vieux Montréal in 1734. 
 Speaking about “resister and rebel storytellers\,” scholars Jessie Sagawa 
 and Wendy Robbins (2011) have pointed out that Angélique’s story is remini
 scent of “much African Canadian writing” in its capacity to illuminate ind
 ividual and community power\, as well as prompt reconsideration of how we 
 define an oppositional national identity in view of our US neighbors.\n\nI
 n this spirit of recovery\, the first part of my talk examines a selection
  of cross-border fugitive slave narratives by women\, collected in aboliti
 onist Benjamin Drew and published in 1856. I analyze key patterns\, tropes
 \, and gender-based concerns among these formerly enslaved newcomers. The 
 second part offers a brief literary analysis of US Latina writer Ana-Mauri
 ne Lara’s verse novel Kohnjehr Woman (2017) which (re)instates a Black les
 bian voice into the transnational medley of slavery’s interrupted but not-
 quite-silenced women.\n
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LOCATION:Seminar room\, Peel 3487\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W7\, 3487 rue
  Peel
SUMMARY:“Across Land and Language: The Multiple Crossings of Enslaved Afric
 an North American Women” a talk by Dr. Nancy Kang\, Muriel Gold Visiting P
 rofessor
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/igsf/channels/event/across-land-and-language-mult
 iple-crossings-enslaved-african-north-american-women-talk-dr-nancy-kang-35
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