African Diasporic Women's Narratives : Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship / Simone A. James Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Simone A. James, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Human body in literature.

African American women in literature.

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using feminist and womanist theory, Alexander takes as her main point of analysis works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration, in the process successfully demonstrating that diaspora has a different meaning for women than men.

Contents:

Introduction: Dis-embodied subjects writing fire

Captive flesh no more: Saartjie Baartman, quintessential migratory subject

"Crimes against the flesh": politics and poetics of the black female body

Framing violence: resistance, redemption, and recuperative strategies in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem

Mothering the nation: women's bodies as nationalist trope in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory

Performing the body: transgressive doubles, fatness and blackness

Bodies and disease: finding alternative cure, assuming alternative identity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5024-3

0-8130-4887-7

OCLC:

879948953