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Autore |
Myles L |
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Titolo |
Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement [[electronic resource] ] : Beyond Borders / / by L. Myles |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-66500-6 |
9786612665004 |
0-230-10316-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2009.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociology |
America—History |
America—Literatures |
Gender Studies |
History of the Americas |
North American Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : places, borders, and margins : locating a Black feminist model of interpretation -- Black female movement : conceptualizing places of consciousness for Black female subjectivity -- Location, female autonomy, and identity in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- At the crossroads of Black female autonomy, or digression as resistance in Quicksand and The street -- Praisesong for the widow : crossing location and space toward female consciousness and wholeness -- Space and time : the interdependency of history, identity, and survival in Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and |
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