Searching for Sycorax : Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror.

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 ha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, Kinitra D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Horror in literature.
African American women authors.
Women authors, Black > History and criticism.
Feminist theory.
Horreur dans la littérature.
Écrivaines noires américaines.
Écrivaines noires > Histoire et critique.
Théorie féministe.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
African American women authors
Feminist theory
Horror in literature
Women authors, Black
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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