Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement : Beyond Borders / by L. Myles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myles, Lynette D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex.

America--History.

America.

America--Literatures.

Gender Studies.

History of the Americas.

North American Literature.

Local Subjects:

Gender Studies.

History of the Americas.

North American Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2009.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and consciousness.

Contents:

Introduction : places, borders, and margins : locating a Black feminist model of interpretation

Black female movement : conceptualizing places of consciousness for Black female subjectivity

Location, female autonomy, and identity in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces

At the crossroads of Black female autonomy, or digression as resistance in Quicksand and The street

Praisesong for the widow : crossing location and space toward female consciousness and wholeness

Space and time : the interdependency of history, identity, and survival in Octavia Butler's Kindred

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612665004

9781282665002

1282665006

9780230103160

0230103162

OCLC:

650310355