Introduction: Mending a Broken Lineage: Women, Writing, Theology; Fear & Women's Writing: Choosing the Better Part; 'A Wretched Choice?': Evangelical Women & the Word; 'My God Became Flesh': Angela of Foligno Writing the Incarnation; Speaking Funk: Womanist Insights into the Lives of Syncletica & Macrina; 'A Moor of One's Own': Writing & Silence in Sara Maitland's "A Book of Silence"; With Prayer & Pen: Reading Mother E J Dabney's "What It Means to Pray Through"; Writing a Life, Writing Theology: Edith Stein in the Company of the Saints; Writing Hunger on the Body: Simone Weil's Ethic of Hunger & Eucharistic Practice; The Body, to be Eaten, to be Written: A Theological Reflection on the Act of Writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictee"; Not with One Voice: The Counterpoint of Life, Diaspora, Women, Theology, & Writing; Embodying Theology: Motherhood as Metaphor/Method; Postscript: Wounded Writing / Healing Writing.
Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History, New York University.
"Ligon's True and Exact History is perhaps the most important
document regarding English colonization efforts in the 17th-century
Caribbean. The book offers a wealth of information about the
natural world--Barbados's climate, flora, and fauna--as well as
social and economic conditions on the island in the late 1640s.
Scholars have long used the text as a source for tracing the
development of sugar and slavery, in particular. Although
previously available in a facsimile edition, Kupperman's is the
first modern, edited version of the text, and it is a most welcome
publication. Kupperman, one of the foremost scholars of the
17th-century Atlantic world, has written an excellent introduction
that outlines what is known about Ligon and provides context on
issues ranging from early modern ideas about the environment, to
conditions in Barbados during the tobacco era, to the rise of sugar
and the island's place in England's emerging empire. Throughout,
Kupperman provides detailed, useful notes that make the text
accessible to students and others. . . . This is a first-rate
example of historical editing. Highly recommended." --M. Mulcahy,
Loyola College in Maryland, in CHOICE
A foundational text for the history and literature of the early
Caribbean and the early Americas. Kupperman's expert Introduction
and annotations . . . make this important text come alive for
scholarly and undergraduate audiences alike. In all aspects, this
edition is a model of historical and textual scholarship. --Ralph
Robert Bauer, University of Maryland
Scholars, students, and general readers will applaud and greatly
appreciate the context Kupperman provides in her highly
informative, insightful Introduction and notes. This volume offers
readers the opportunity to explore Ligon's world and times, when
sugar and black slavery were dramatically and aggressively
transforming Caribbean society and contributing to English
economic, maritime, and imperial strength. --David Barry Gaspar,
Duke University
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