1st Edition

Black Women, Writing and Identity Migrations of the Subject

By Carole Boyce-Davies Copyright 1994
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as:
    * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings
    * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling
    * gender, heritage and identity
    * African women's writing and resistance to domination
    * marginality, effacement and decentering
    * gender, language and the politics of location
    Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to broaden the discourse surrounding the representation of and by black women and women of colour. Black Women Writing and Identity represents an extraordinary achievement in this field, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels.

    Acknowledgments, 1 INTRODUCTION: MIGRATORY SUBJECTIVITIES Black women’s writing and the re-negotiation of identities, 2 NEGOTIATING THEORIES OR “GOING A PIECE OF THE WAY WITH THEM”, 3 DECONSTRUCTING AFRICAN FEMALE SUBJECTIVITIES Anowa’s borderlands, 4 FROM “POST-COLONIALITY” TO UPRISING TEXTUALITIES Black women writing the critique of Empire, 5 WRITING HOME Gender, heritage and identity in Afro-Caribbean women’s writing in the US, 6 MOBILITY, EMBODIMENT AND RESISTANCE Black women’s writing in the US, 7 OTHER TONGUES Gender, language, sexuality and the politics of location, Notes, Bibliography

    Biography

    Carole Boyce-Davies