1st Edition
Black Women, Writing and Identity Migrations of the Subject
By Carole Boyce-Davies
Copyright 1994
240 Pages
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Routledge
238 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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
