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Mistress, (Paperback)
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Mistress seeks to resurrect Hemings from the limited historical narrative she’s often provided, while also bucking up against the limited ways in which black women are currently represented in popular culture.
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- This book of poems presents a cross-generational conversation between Sally Hemings and the contemporary narrator about what it means to be a black woman in their respective landscapes, while at the same time demonstrating how little the ways in which we talk about black women and black female experiences have changed in more than two hundred years. In these poems, the speakers engage with historical texts, art, literature, and popular culture, while never allowing us to lose sight of their location within their own settings, the twenty-first century and the antebellum South. With an intentionally fraught title, Mistress not only addresses the ways in which that word is perhaps inappropriate to define Hemings, but also about how we tend to oversimplify the ways in which we see women. The title is investigated through a series of poems, in which the speakers contemplate the various definitions of mistress extramarital partner, skilled individual, school teacher, authority figure, head of household, etc. In this way, the collection asks readers to complicate their understandings of both the word mistress and of black women. This collection seeks to resurrect Hemings from the limited historical narrative she's often provided, while also bucking up against the limited ways in which black women are currently represented in popular culture. Through a series of poems with mistress in the title, the book looks at how narrowly we use the word, almost exclusively as extramarital partner, but how the word's different definitions are related to power and strength. When we strip the term of its positive connotations, it mirrors the way that we strip Hemings of the agency she had over her life and the lives of her children.
| Book format | Paperback |
| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | October, 2019 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Subgenre | American |
| Series title | No Series |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | New Issues Poetry and Prose |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Character | Sally Hemings |
| Binding type | Perfect Binding |
| Narrator | Sally Hemings |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.90 x 0.30 x 8.40 in (15 x 0.8 x 21.3 cm) |
| Assembled product weight | 0.42 lb (190 grams) |
| Bisac subject heading | Poetry |
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- Explores the dynamic between Sally Hemings and a contemporary narrator.
- Addresses the evolving conversation about black women over two centuries.
- Engages with history, literature, and culture through poetry.
- Challenges oversimplified views of black female experiences.
- Redefines the term 'mistress' beyond its traditional connotations.
- Aims to empower and give agency back to historical and modern black women.
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