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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. searching for Sycorax : black women and horror
- 1. The importance of neglected intersections : characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts
- 2. Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability
- 3. Black women writing fluid fiction : an open challenge to genre normativity
- 4. Folkloric horror : a new way of reading black women's creative horror
- Conclusion. Sycorax's power of revision : reconstructing black women's counternarratives
- Appendix : creative work summary.