Analysis Of Dispossessed Lives By Marisa J. Fuentes
Dispossessed Lives by Marisa J. Fuentes can be seen as a critique of the colonial archive in order to eliminate archival silence—which Sweet failed to remove. Her effort to discover hidden primary source in order to reveal erased history of enslaved women which was distorted by white’s perspective shows how hard she strived to reduce permanency of historical silence and erasure. She explains what methodology she referred to in every chapters; in the first chapter, Fuentes added Jane’s runaway advertisement and immediately explained an archival discourse that filtered Jane’s – or every enslaved women’s— experience through white perspective. From the violated archive, the only way to find out enslaved women’s real history is through the scars