LEADER 02802nam 2200613 450 001 9910466407003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8135-8464-7 010 $a0-8135-8463-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813584645 035 $a(CKB)3840000000327002 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5164072 035 $a(OCoLC)1013822930 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse60303 035 $a(DE-B1597)526293 035 $a(OCoLC)1029491102 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813584645 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5164072 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11525715 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000327002 100 $a20171019h20182018 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSearching for Sycorax $eblack women's hauntings of contemporary horror /$fKinitra D. Brooks 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) 300 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 311 $a0-8135-8462-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $a"Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aHorror in literature 606 $aAfrican American women authors 606 $aWomen authors, Black$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminist theory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHorror in literature. 615 0$aAfrican American women authors. 615 0$aWomen authors, Black$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminist theory. 676 $a823/.08738099287 700 $aBrooks$b Kinitra Dechaun$01037044 702 $aBrooks$b Kinitra, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466407003321 996 $aSearching for Sycorax$92457732 997 $aUNINA