Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / Kinitra D. Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun, author.

Brooks, Kinitra, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror in literature.

African American women authors.

Women authors, Black--History and criticism.

Women authors, Black.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: black women and horror

The importance of neglected intersections: characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts

Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability

Black women writing fluid fiction: an open challenge to genre normativity

Folkloric horror: a new way of reading black women's creative horror

Conclusion Sycorax's power of revision: reconstructing black women's counter-narratives

Appendix: creative work summary.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8135-8464-7

0-8135-8463-9

OCLC:

1013822930