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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women authors, Black.
Women, Black, in literature.
Horror tales > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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