1st Edition
Trafficking Hadassah Collective Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Identity in the Book of Esther and in the African Diaspora
By Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
Copyright 2022
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
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The representation of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther has parallels with the cultural memories, histories, and materialized pain of African(a) girls and women across time and space, from the Persian Empire, to subsequent slave trade routes and beyond.
Trafficking Hadassah illuminates that Africana female bodies have been and continue to be colonized and sexualized, exploited for... Read more
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
Biography
Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar is Visiting Professor of Hebrew Bible, Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA.
