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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785025303321

Autore

Myles L

Titolo

Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement [[electronic resource] ] : Beyond Borders / / by L. Myles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-66500-6

9786612665004

0-230-10316-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

813.0099827

Soggetti

Sociology

America—History

America—Literatures

Gender Studies

History of the Americas

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190).

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



consciousness.