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

• Autore: Brooks Kinitra Dechaun
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Disciplina: 823/.08738099287
• Soggetto topico: Horror in literature; African American women authors; Women authors, Black - History and criticism; Feminist theory
• Soggetto non controllato: England; african literature; african; diaspora; haiti; horror fiction; horror; jamaica; literature; shakespeare; tempest; trinidad; women
• Persona (resp. second.): BrooksKinitra
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Searching for Sycorax
• ISBN: 0-8135-8464-7; 0-8135-8463-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796599203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II