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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780445603321

Autore

Quashie Kevin Everod

Titolo

Black women, identity, and cultural theory [[electronic resource] ] : (un)becoming the subject / / Kevin Everod Quashie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, : Rutgers University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8135-5540-X

0-8135-3536-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AaronMichele

Disciplina

810.9/9287/08996073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc

African American women - Intellectual life

Women and literature - United States

African American women in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Women, Black - Intellectual life

African American photographers

Group identity in literature

African American aesthetics

Women, Black, in literature

Women photographers

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 (p. 207-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : what becomes -- The other dancer as self : notes on girlfriend selfhood -- Self(full)ness and the politics of community -- Liminality and selfhood : toward being enough -- An indisputable memory of blackness -- The practice of a memory body -- Toward a language aesthetic -- My own, language -- Conclusion : what is undone.