Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / On title page: MPhil in Antieke Kulture. Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / A investigaÃÃo que resultou neste trabalho analisou a inserÃÃo e presenÃa da escravidÃo negra ao longo do sÃculo XVIII na regiÃo Noroeste cearense, cuja maior parte do territÃrio foi intitulada Ribeira do AcaraÃ. Para tanto, destacou-se as atuaÃÃes de mulheres escravas e forras e a partir das experiÃncias vivenciadas por elas, buscou-se analisar as mudanÃas nessa sociedade que propiciaram a ascensÃo e predominÃncia de africanos e seus descendentes no mundo dos cativos. AtravÃs da consulta a vÃrias fontes documentais como: cartorÃrias, registros da CÃmara de Sobral, correspondÃncias entre os colonos e o Conselho Ultramarino, registros paroquiais e o cruzamento das informaÃÃes contidas nestas, pode-se constatar situaÃÃes diversas a respeito dessa sociedade, do mundo do trabalho e da construÃÃo da rede de solidariedades possÃveis aos trabalhadores escravos e libertos numa regiÃo agropastoril e de predominÃncia do trabalho familiar. Adentrando no universo dos cativos atravÃs da experiÃncia das mulheres, observa-se que a atuaÃÃo dessas foi permeada pela intencionalidade de sobreviverem, preservar suas famÃlias, e atà mesmo alcanÃarem a liberdade. Para assegurÃ-los, as mulheres trabalharam, buscaram a uniÃo sacramentada pela igreja, se envolveram em relaÃÃes de compadrio, os quais lhes permitam contar com a proteÃÃo e solidariedade de uma rede de contatos formada por pessoas livres, libertas (forras), outros escravos e atà mesmo senhores. As fontes consultadas, em consonÃncia com a discussÃo, possibilitaram a constataÃÃo de que pelo menos em se tratando dos cativos e forros, inseridos geralmente em pequenos plantÃis, trabalho e solidariedade foram elementos estratÃgicos para enfrentarem os desafios e limites impostos pela escravidÃo. / The investigation that resulted in this paper examined the insertion and presence of black slavery throughout the eighteenth century in the northwestern state of CearÃ, where most of the territory was entitled Ribeira AcaraÃ. Therefore, stood out the performances of slave and free women and from the experiences of them, we have analyzed the changes in this society that enabled the rise and dominance of Africans and their descendants in the world of captives. Through consultation with various documentary sources as cartorÃrias, records of the Chamber of Sobral, correspondences between the settlers and the Overseas Council, parish records and the crossing of the information contained in these, one can observe different situations regarding this society, the world of work and the network construction workers solidarity possible slaves and freedmen in a region agropastoral and predominance of family labor. Entering the universe of captives through the experience of women, it is observed that the performance of these was permeated with intent to survive, preserve their families, and even achieve freedom. To reassure them, the women worked, sought union sanctified by the church, engaged in crony relationships, which enable them to have the protection and solidarity of a network formed by free persons freed (blinders), other slaves and even gentlemen. The sources consulted in line with the discussion, allowed the observation that at least in the case of captives and ceilings, usually inserted in small flocks, labor and solidarity were strategic elements to meet the challenges and limitations imposed by slavery.

GALDINO, Maria Rakel Amâncio. Mulheres escravas e forras na Ribeira do Acaraú (1750-1788). 2013. 277f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em História, Fortaleza (CE), 2013. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-11T12:46:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-MRAGALDINO.pdf: 2934860 bytes, checksum: 9e8ed1d23ad1119d9b2bcc158eb55a1c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-11T13:32:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-MRAGALDINO.pdf: 2934860 bytes, checksum: 9e8ed1d23ad1119d9b2bcc158eb55a1c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-11T13:32:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-MRAGALDINO.pdf: 2934860 bytes, checksum: 9e8ed1d23ad1119d9b2bcc158eb55a1c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / The investigation that resulted in this paper examined the insertion and presence of black slavery throughout the eighteenth century in the northwestern state of Ceará, where most of the territory was entitled Ribeira Acaraú. Therefore, stood out the performances of slave and free women and from the experiences of them, we have analyzed the changes in this society that enabled the rise and dominance of Africans and their descendants in the world of captives. Through consultation with various documentary sources as cartorárias, records of the Chamber of Sobral, correspondences between the settlers and the Overseas Council, parish records and the crossing of the information contained in these, one can observe different situations regarding this society, the world of work and the network construction workers solidarity possible slaves and freedmen in a region agropastoral and predominance of family labor. Entering the universe of captives through the experience of women, it is observed that the performance of these was permeated with intent to survive, preserve their families, and even achieve freedom. To reassure them, the women worked, sought union sanctified by the church, engaged in crony relationships, which enable them to have the protection and solidarity of a network formed by free persons freed (blinders), other slaves and even gentlemen. The sources consulted in line with the discussion, allowed the observation that at least in the case of captives and ceilings, usually inserted in small flocks, labor and solidarity were strategic elements to meet the challenges and limitations imposed by slavery. / A investigação que resultou neste trabalho analisou a inserção e presença da escravidão negra ao longo do século XVIII na região Noroeste cearense, cuja maior parte do território foi intitulada Ribeira do Acaraú. Para tanto, destacou-se as atuações de mulheres escravas e forras e a partir das experiências vivenciadas por elas, buscou-se analisar as mudanças nessa sociedade que propiciaram a ascensão e predominância de africanos e seus descendentes no mundo dos cativos. Através da consulta a várias fontes documentais como: cartorárias, registros da Câmara de Sobral, correspondências entre os colonos e o Conselho Ultramarino, registros paroquiais e o cruzamento das informações contidas nestas, pode-se constatar situações diversas a respeito dessa sociedade, do mundo do trabalho e da construção da rede de solidariedades possíveis aos trabalhadores escravos e libertos numa região agropastoril e de predominância do trabalho familiar. Adentrando no universo dos cativos através da experiência das mulheres, observa-se que a atuação dessas foi permeada pela intencionalidade de sobreviverem, preservar suas famílias, e até mesmo alcançarem a liberdade. Para assegurá-los, as mulheres trabalharam, buscaram a união sacramentada pela igreja, se envolveram em relações de compadrio, os quais lhes permitam contar com a proteção e solidariedade de uma rede de contatos formada por pessoas livres, libertas (forras), outros escravos e até mesmo senhores. As fontes consultadas, em consonância com a discussão, possibilitaram a constatação de que pelo menos em se tratando dos cativos e forros, inseridos geralmente em pequenos plantéis, trabalho e solidariedade foram elementos estratégicos para enfrentarem os desafios e limites impostos pela escravidão.

During the antebellum period of U.S. slavery (1830-1861), many people claimed ownership of the enslaved woman's body, both legally and figuratively. The assumption that they were merely property, however, belies the unstable, shifting truths about bodily ownership. This thesis inquires into the gendered specifics and ambiguities of the law, the body, and women under slavery. By examining the particular bodily regulation and exploitation of enslaved women, especially around their reproductive labor, I suggest that new operations of oppression and also of resistance come into focus. The legal structure recognized enslaved women in the interest of owners, and this limitation was defining, meaning that justice flowed in one direction. If married white women were "civilly dead," as famously evoked by the Declaration of Sentiments (1848) then enslaved women were civilly non-existent. The law controlled, but did not protect slaves, and a number of opponents to slavery denounced this contradictory scenario during the antebellum era (and before). Literally, enslaved women were claimed by their masters, purchased and sold as chattel. Physically, they were claimed by those men (both white and black) who sought to have power over them. Symbolically, they were claimed by anti-slavers and pro-slavers alike when it suited their purposes, often in the domains of news and literature, for the sake of advancing their ideas, a rich record of which fills court cases, newsprint, and propaganda touching the slavery issue before the civil war. Due to the numerous ways that enslaved women's bodies have been claimed, owned, or circulated in markets, it may have been considered implicit to many that others owned their bodies. I believe that this is an oversimplified historical supposition that needs to be re-theorized. Indeed, enslaved women lived in a time when they were often led to believe that their bodies were not truly their own, and yet, many of them resisted their particular forms of oppression by claiming ownership of their bodies and those of their children; sometimes using rather extreme methods to keep from contributing to their oppression. In other words, slave owners' monopoly of the legal, economic, and logistical meanings of ownership of slaves had to be constantly reaffirmed and negotiated. This thesis asks: who owned the enslaved woman's body? I seek to emphasize that enslaved women were valid claimants of themselves as can seen in primary sources that today have only been given limited expression in the historiography.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Johannesburg, 2017 / Set within a revisionist and feminist context, this thesis seeks to draw parallels in the autobiographical texts of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) written by an African American ex-enslaved and Schizophrene (2011) penned by Bhanu Kapil, a British born Asian American, a descendant of a generation that live (d) through/with ‘what happened in a particular country on a particular day in August 14th 1947’ (Quaid). These literary representations will constitute the corpus of this research paper as it attempts to examine how these autobiographies draw attention to and break the notion of prevailing dominant geographies of oppression. In both texts, the authors juxtapose appropriation and hegemony with an alternative literary geographic narrative that seeks to recuperate the liminal (black) body and psyche. This research paper will seek to explore the multiple and interrelated ways in which both authors employ certain strategic mechanisms to re-appropriate tools of social power, thus exposing the frailties of their respective oppressive histories by disrupting their continued, albeit imagined stronghold on them. In employing their autobiographies as anthropological arsenals, these authors seem to demonstrate the manner in which history has attempted through its numerous sites of oppression not only to construct black victims and mere black bodies but also to un-write and evacuate its untidiness. These autobiographies will be employed to reconstruct and re-imagine the authors but symbolically the collective black body as more than objects but rather as humans with subjectivities and self-assertion. The paper further seeks to understand how these autobiographies tend to a vicious past of slavery and partition and how they translate these memories, remembering the depth of their experiences whilst also being haunted by their contemporary echoes. An accent will be given to the ambivalence, perversions and anxieties of these autobiographies. / XL2018

Orientador: Claudia Valladão de Matos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T08:15:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Formico_MarcelaRegina_M.pdf: 13487393 bytes, checksum: 919b96d1f4b3895551f708c721d3b616 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta uma contribuição para a análise do jogo de relações que se estabeleceu entre a pintura produzida no contexto brasileiro do século XIX e a produção internacional, especialmente francesa, centrando-nos na trajetória artística do pintor Oscar Pereira da Silva. A trajetória desse artista foi marcada por diversas idas e vindas entre Brasil e França, fazendo do artista um verdadeiro tradutor do sistema artístico francês para o contexto brasileiro. Desta forma, a partir da escolha da obra, "Escrava Romana", como "chave-mestra" para o desenvolvimento do debate em questão que se baseia o fluxo argumentativo da pesquisa. Razão que é justificável por esta tela representar um exemplar do primor técnico do estudo acadêmico do pintor brasileiro durante sua estádia com os mestres franceses, principalmente o pintor Jean- Léon Gérôme, que possui uma gama de obras que versam a temática explorada pelo objeto central de estudo. O segundo e último motivo se resguarda por se tratar de uma obra de grande impacto visual que compõe a galeria da Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo e ser um belíssimo representante da mais clássica das atividades do currículo da arte acadêmica do século XIX, a representação do nu / Abstract: This work presents a contribution for the relation's analysis between the masterpieces made inside the Brazilian's context on the 19th century and the international art's production, specially in France, focussing in the artistic path of the painter Oscar Pereira da Silva. The artist's life had a closer relation with France, making the painter a true translator of the French artistic model to Brazil. By choosing a particular painting as a methodological matter, the "Escrava Romana" became the "master key" for the research. To justify, this canvas is a perfect model of academic studies during his learning period with the French masters, specially Jean-Léon Gérôme, artist who developed a great number of canvas with the same thematic. The second and last reason is the great visual impact that this master-piece represents inside the gallery of Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and for being a beautiful sample of the most classic discipline in the learning process at École des Beaux Arts and the academic art in general, the representation of the nude / Mestrado / Mestra em Artes Visuais

In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publication of Jacobs' narrative, a discussion of the history of the slave narrative as a genre, and a discussion of the history of Jacobs' narrative.