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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552784503321

Autore

Simmons Merinda <1981->

Titolo

Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / / K. Merinda Simmons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8142-7322-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

810.9/928708996073

Soggetti

Culture in literature

Collective memory in literature

Slave trade in literature

African Americans in literature

African American women in literature

West Indian literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism

American literature - African American women - History and criticism

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

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

Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.