03115nam 2200757 450 991081670310332120230125221405.00-8135-8464-70-8135-8463-910.36019/9780813584645(CKB)3840000000327002(OCoLC)1013822930(MdBmJHUP)muse60303(DE-B1597)526293(OCoLC)1029491102(DE-B1597)9780813584645(Au-PeEL)EBL5164072(CaPaEBR)ebr11525715(MiAaPQ)EBC5164072(EXLCZ)99384000000032700220171019h20182018 ub| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSearching for Sycorax black women's hauntings of contemporary horror /Kinitra D. BrooksNew Brunswick, New Jersey :Rutgers University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (220 pages)Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.0-8135-8462-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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"--Provided by publisher.Horror in literatureAfrican American women authorsWomen authors, BlackHistory and criticismFeminist theoryEngland.african literature.african.diaspora.haiti.horror fiction.horror.jamaica.literature.shakespeare.tempest.trinidad.women.Horror in literature.African American women authors.Women authors, BlackHistory and criticism.Feminist theory.823/.08738099287Brooks Kinitra Dechaun1631081Brooks Kinitra, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816703103321Searching for Sycorax3969701UNINA