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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458137803321

Autore

Brown Kimberly Nichele

Titolo

Writing the black revolutionary diva [[electronic resource] ] : women's subjectivity and the decolonizing text / / Kimberly Nichele Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-81843-0

9786612818431

0-253-00470-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the diaspora

Disciplina

810.9/928708996073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African American women authors

African American women in literature

African American women - Race identity

Subjectivity in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From soul cleavage to soul survival:  Double-consciousness and the emergence of the decolonized text/subject -- Who is the Black woman ?: repositioning the gaze and reconstructing images in the black woman:  An anthology and Essence magazine -- Constructing Diva citizenship: The enigmatic Angela Davis as case study -- Return to the flesh: The revolutionary ideology behind the poetry of Jayne Cortez -- She dreams a world: The decolonized text and the new world order, Toni Cade Bambara's  "The Salt Eaters" -- CODA: This is not about "inward navel-gazing": Decolonizing my own mind as a critical stance.