The essay proposes a re-assessment of the multiple speaking voice in "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself" (1831), the memoir of an Afro-descendant woman who lived most of her life as a slave in the British West Indies. The argument revolves around issues of authorship, agency, and authenticity, which are examined in relation to Gayatri Spivak’s concept of the invisibility of the female subaltern subject – the latter flexibly wavering in the text between presence and absence. Secondly, these issues and the narrator’s related discourses of resistance and resilience will be investigated through Deleuze and Guattari’s anti-Freudian paradigm of desire and body politic.

Voicing Reticence, Resistance and Resilience in "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself" (1831) / Angeletti, Gioia. - In: LE SIMPLEGADI. - ISSN 1824-5226. - 20:22(2022), pp. 48-64. [10.17456/SIMPLE-193]

Voicing Reticence, Resistance and Resilience in "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself" (1831)

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2022-01-01

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The essay proposes a re-assessment of the multiple speaking voice in "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself" (1831), the memoir of an Afro-descendant woman who lived most of her life as a slave in the British West Indies. The argument revolves around issues of authorship, agency, and authenticity, which are examined in relation to Gayatri Spivak’s concept of the invisibility of the female subaltern subject – the latter flexibly wavering in the text between presence and absence. Secondly, these issues and the narrator’s related discourses of resistance and resilience will be investigated through Deleuze and Guattari’s anti-Freudian paradigm of desire and body politic.
2022
Voicing Reticence, Resistance and Resilience in "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself" (1831) / Angeletti, Gioia. - In: LE SIMPLEGADI. - ISSN 1824-5226. - 20:22(2022), pp. 48-64. [10.17456/SIMPLE-193]
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