Black women, identity, and cultural theory : (un)becoming the subject /

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Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girlfriend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and man...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Quashie, Kevin Everod
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
African American women > Intellectual life.
Women and literature > United States.
African American women in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Women, Black > Intellectual life.
African American photographers.
Group identity in literature.
African American aesthetics.
Women, Black, in literature.
Women photographers.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Noires américaines > Vie intellectuelle.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Femmes noires > Vie intellectuelle.
Photographes noirs américains.
Identité collective dans la littérature.
Esthétique noire américaine.
Noires dans la littérature.
Femmes photographes.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African American aesthetics
African American photographers
African American women in literature
African American women > Intellectual life
Group identity in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Women and literature
Women, Black, in literature
Women, Black > Intellectual life
Women photographers
Frauenliteratur
Schwarze
Schwarze Frau
Schriftstellerin
Ethnische Identität
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : what becomes
  • The other dancer as self : notes on girlfriend selfhood
  • Self(full)ness and the politics of community
  • Liminality and selfhood : toward being enough
  • An indisputable memory of blackness
  • The practice of a memory body
  • Toward a language aesthetic
  • My own, language
  • Conclusion : what is undone.

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