African diasporic women's narratives : politics of resistance, survival, and citizenship /

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"Using feminist and womanist theory, Simone Alexander takes as her main point of analysis literary works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration. She shows that over time black women have used their bodily presence to complicate and challenge a mig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, Simone A. James, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
Human body in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
American literature.
American literature > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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