Fugitive Modernities

Kisama and the Politics of Freedom

Jessica A. Krug (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0154-6 (ISBN)

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During the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for those fleeing expanding states and the violence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The fugitives mounted effective resistance to European colonialism despite-or because of-the absence of centralized authority or a common language. In Fugitive Modernities Jessica A. Krug offers a continent- and century-spanning narrative exploring Kisama's intellectual, political, and social histories. Those who became Kisama forged a transnational reputation for resistance, and by refusing to organize their society around warrior identities, they created viable social and political lives beyond the bounds of states and the ruthless market economy of slavery. Krug follows the idea of Kisama to the Americas, where fugitives in the New Kingdom of Grenada (present-day Colombia) and Brazil used it as a means of articulating politics in fugitive slave communities. By tracing the movement of African ideas, rather than African bodies, Krug models new methods for grappling with politics and the past, while showing how the history of Kisama and its legacy as a global symbol of resistance that has evaded state capture offers essential lessons for those working to build new and just societies.

Jessica A. Krug is Associate Professor of History at George Washington University.

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Cartography xi
List of Archives and Abbreviations xiii
Introduction. Fugitive Modernities: Chronotope, Epistemology, and Subjectivity 1
1. Kafuxi Ambari and the People without State's History: Forging Kisama Reputations, c. 1580-1630 31
2."They Publicize to the Neighboring Nations That the Arms of Your Majesty Do Not Conquer": Fugitive Politics and Legitimacy, c. 1620-55 58
3. "The Husbands Having First Laid Down Their Lives in Their Defense": Gender, Food, and Politics in the War of 1655-58 86
4. (Mis)Taken Identities: Kisama and the Politics of Naming in the Palenque LimÓn, New Kingdom of Grenada, c. 1570-1634 111
5. Fugitive Angola: Toward a New History of Palmares 146
6. "The Ashes of Revolutionary Fires Burn Hot": Brazilian and Angolan Nationalism and the "Colonial" and "Postcolonial" Life of the Kisama Meme, c. 1700-Present 164
Conclusion. Fugitive Modernities in the Neoliberal Afterlife of the Nation-State 187
Notes 195
Bibliography 241
Index 257

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	9 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0154-2 / 1478001542
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0154-6 / 9781478001546
Zustand	Neuware