The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros : : A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman /

The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros : : A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman / / Galawdewos; Michael Kleiner, Wendy Laura Belcher.

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 Afri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Galawdewos,
TeilnehmendeR:
Belcher, Wendy Laura,
Kleiner, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 64 color illus. 18 halftones. 4 tables. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Preface / Belcher, Wendy Laura
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction to the Text / Belcher, Wendy Laura
  • Manuscripts of the Text and Earlier Translations / Belcher, Wendy Laura
  • Introduction to the Translation of the Text / Kleiner, Michael
  • The Ethiopian Script and Its Transcription / Kleiner, Michael
  • The Translation of the Life- Struggles of Walatta Petros (Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros)
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Author's Worthiness - Chapter 50: The Mother of Our Mother Dies
  • Chapter 51: Our Mother Raises the Monk Silla Kristos from the Dead - Chapter 92: Our Mother Departs to Eternal Life
  • Alternate Ending of the Gädlä Wälättä P̣eṭros
  • The Translation of the Miracles of Walatta Petros (täˀamərä Wälättä P̣eṭros)
  • Summaries of Additional Miracles of Walatta Petros (täˀamərä Wälättä P̣eṭros)
  • Summary of the Short History of Walatta Petros's Community (in MSS I and J only)
  • The Translation of the Poem Portrait of Walatta Petros (Mälkəˀa Wälättä P̣eṭros)
  • The Translation of the Poem Hail to Walatta Petros (Sälamta Wälättä P̣eṭros)
  • Colophons
  • Appendix: Manuscript Folio Missing From the Conti Rossini print edition (From MS J)
  • Glossary: People, Places, and Terms in the Text / Belcher, Wendy Laura
  • Works cited
  • Index

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