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Black women, writing, and identity : migrations of the subject / Carole Boyce Davies.

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A superb study of black women's writing, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels. A major contribution to a range of related fields including feminist, cultural and postcolonial studies.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Boyce Davies, Carole
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Foreign countries > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries.
African American women > Intellectual life.
African American women in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Authorship > Sex differences.
Black people in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Blacks in literature.
English literature > Black authors.
English literature > Foreign countries.
English literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Migratory subjectivities: Black women's writing and the re- negotiation of identities
  • Negotiating theories or "going a piece of the way with them"
  • Deconstructing African female subjectivities: Anowa's borderlands
  • From "post-colonoality" to uprising textualities: Black women writing the critique of empire
  • Writing home: Gender, heritage and identity in Afro- Caribbean women's writings in the US
  • Mobility, embodiment and resistance: Black women's writing in the US
  • Other tongues: Gender, language, sexuality and the politics of location.

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