Trafficking Hadassah: Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9780367769116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 124 str.

Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar

Opis

Trafficking Hadassah illuminates that Africana female bodies have been and continue to be colonized and sexualized, exploited for profit and pleasure, causing adverse physical, mental, sexual, socio-cultural, and spiritual consequences for the girls and women concerned.

Spis treści

An Introduction to Reading Esther 1-2 as a Story of Sexual Trafficking  1. "One Night with the King": Sexual Trafficking in the Book of Esther  2. Sexual Trafficking During the Maafa: A Site of Collective Memory for Africana Girls and Women  3. Stereotypes and Social and Cultural Attitudes Regarding the Africana Female Collective and How these Attitudes Contribute to Sexual Violence  4. "For Such a Time as This?": Conclusions and Implications of Intersectional Polyvocal Africana Biblical Interpretation

O autorze

Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar is Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible, Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA.