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UNINA9910466407003321 |
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Autore |
Brooks Kinitra Dechaun |
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Titolo |
Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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0-8135-8464-7 |
0-8135-8463-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Horror in literature |
African American women authors |
Women authors, Black - History and criticism |
Feminist theory |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"-- |
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