The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
544
Utgivningsdatum
2015-10-13
Utmärkelser
Winner of 2017 Paul Hair Prize, African Studies Association 2017; Winner of 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 2015
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Översättare
Wendy Laura Belcher, Michael Kleiner
Originalspråk
English
Medarbetare
Belcher, Wendy Laura (ed. & transl.)/Kleiner, Michael (ed. & transl.)/Belcher, Wendy Laura (ed. & transl.)/Kleiner, Michael (ed. & transl.)
Illustrationer
2 Maps
Dimensioner
262 x 190 x 35 mm
Vikt
1521 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780691164212

The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros

A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

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This is the first English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century. As such, it provides an exceedingly rare and valuable picture of the experiences and thoughts of Africans, especially women, before the modern era. It is also an extraordinary account of a remarkable life--full of vivid dialogue, heartbreak, and triumph. The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. When the Jesuits tried to convert the Ethiopians from their ancient form of Christianity, Walatta Petros (1592-1642), a noblewoman and the wife of one of the emperor's counselors, risked her life by leaving her husband, who supported the conversion effort, and leading the struggle against the Jesuits. After her death, her disciples wrote this book, praising her as a friend of women, a devoted reader, a skilled preacher, and a radical leader. One of the earliest stories of African resistance to European influence, this biography also provides a picture of domestic life, including Walatta Petros's life-long relationship with a female companion. Richly illustrated with dozens of color illustrations from early manuscripts, this groundbreaking volume provides an authoritative and highly readable translation along with an extensive introduction. Other features include a chronology of Walatta Petros's life, maps, a comprehensive glossary, and detailed notes on textual variants.
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Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women "By 2050, Africans will constitute around a third of the world's Christian population, roughly a billion people, and over a hundred million of those will live in Ethiopia. As we confront that new reality, the need to rediscover those African cultural and spiritual roots becomes imperative. The story of Walatta Petros is a wonderful contribution to this task."--Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture "This richly informative book is unexpected in many ways... In following the dramatic main narrative, we learn about the customs and faith of the great Ethiopian church, all of which is profoundly important for understanding that tradition as it exists today."--Philip Jenkins, Christian Century

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Wendy Laura Belcher is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson and Honey from the Lion: An African Journey. Michael Kleiner is a historian of Ethiopia and a translator. He has taught at the universities of Gottingen, Marburg, and Hamburg, as well as at Addis Ababa University.

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*Frontmatter, pg. A*Contents, pg. v*Abbreviations, pg. xi*Chronology, pg. xiii*Preface, pg. xvii*Acknowledgments, pg. xxxiii*Introduction to the Text, pg. 1*Manuscripts of the Text and Earlier Translations, pg. 49*Introduction to the Translation of the Text, pg. 61*The Ethiopian Script and Its Transcription, pg. 72*Introduction, pg. 77*Chapter 1: The Author's Worthiness - Chapter 50: The Mother of Our Mother Dies, pg. 78*Chapter 51: Our Mother Raises the Monk Silla Kristos from the Dead - Chapter 92: Our Mother Departs to Eternal Life, pg. 190*Alternate Ending of the Gadla Walatta Petros, pg. 271*The Translation of the Miracles of Walatta Petros (ta'amera Walatta Petros), pg. 273*Summaries of Additional Miracles of Walatta Petros (ta'amera Walatta Petros), pg. 335*Summary of the Short History of Walatta Petros's Community (in MSS I and J only), pg. 349*The Translation of the Poem Portrait of Walatta Petros (Malke'a Walatta Petros), pg. 353*The Translation of the Poem Hail to Walatta Petros (Salamta Walatta Petros), pg. 381*Colophons, pg. 391*Appendix: Manuscript Folio Missing From the Conti Rossini print edition (From MS J), pg. 393*Glossary: People, Places, and Terms in the Text, pg. 395*Works cited, pg. 471*Index, pg. 487

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