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Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Merinda, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature--African American women--History and criticism.
- West Indian literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- West Indian literature (English).
- African American women in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Slave trade in literature.
- Collective memory in literature.
- Culture in literature.
- West Indian literature (English)--Women authors.
- African American women.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 172 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Introduction: when literature and identity "get real"
- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince
- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God
- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day
- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814212622
- 081421262X
- OCLC:
- 875520899
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