Writing the black revolutionary diva : women's subjectivity and the decolonizing text / Kimberly Nichele Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Kimberly Nichele.

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora.

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African American women authors.

African American women in literature.

African American women--Race identity.

African American women.

Subjectivity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.

Contents:

From soul cleavage to soul survival: Double-consciousness and the emergence of the decolonized text/subject

Who is the Black woman ?: repositioning the gaze and reconstructing images in the black woman: An anthology and Essence magazine

Constructing Diva citizenship: The enigmatic Angela Davis as case study

Return to the flesh: The revolutionary ideology behind the poetry of Jayne Cortez

She dreams a world: The decolonized text and the new world order, Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters"

CODA: This is not about "inward navel-gazing": Decolonizing my own mind as a critical stance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-81843-0

9786612818431

0-253-00470-5

OCLC:

669509830