1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008009190403321

Autore

Leotardo, Onorato

Titolo

Honorati Leotardi ... Liber singularis de usuris, & contractibus usurariis coercendis: in quo omnes fere quaestiones ad tractatum ejus quod interest & annuorum redituum, pertinentes, non vulgari ratione definitae continentur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lugduni : sumptibus Anissoniorum et Joannis Posuel, 1682

Edizione

[Editio quarta, ab authore, dum viveret, correcta; & variis in locis aucta & ornata. Cui novissime accessit Disputatio ejusdem authoris, sive Novus tractatus, de eo quod jus Justinianeum de usuris statuerit.]

Descrizione fisica

[8], 644, [68], 94, [14] p. ; fol.

Disciplina

332.8

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

V Na 91

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816703103321

Autore

Brooks Kinitra Dechaun

Titolo

Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-8135-8464-7

0-8135-8463-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Disciplina

823/.08738099287

Soggetti

Horror in literature

African American women authors

Women authors, Black - History and criticism

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--