Exemplary Exceptions

the singularity of Sojourner Truth and Jarena Lee and the nineteenth-century American society

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https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v32i61.45864

Mots-clés :

Sojourner Truth, Jarena Lee, Excepcionalidade, Estereótipos

Résumé

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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Hanna Karolyne Souza Simões, UFMG

Mestre em Letras: Estudos Literários na área de concentração Literaturas de Língua Inglesa e Bacharel em Ciências Sociais ambos pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Marcel de Lima Santos, Professor Associado de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Ph.D. em Estudos Literários pela University of Nottingham, na Inglaterra (2003). Atualmente é Professor Associado de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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2023-05-31

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Karolyne Souza Simões, H., & de Lima Santos, M. (2023). Exemplary Exceptions: the singularity of Sojourner Truth and Jarena Lee and the nineteenth-century American society . Revista Cerrados, 32(61), 168–180. https://doi.org/10.26512/cerrados.v32i61.45864

Numéro

Vol. 32 No. 61 (2023): Dossiê - Literaturas africanas e afrodiaspóricas: escritas emancipatórias

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Dossier - Littératures africaines et afrodiasporiques : écrits émancipateurs

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