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

• Autore: Myles L
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2009.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.0099827
• Soggetto topico: Sociology; America—History; America—Literatures; Gender Studies; History of the Americas; North American Literature
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement
• ISBN: 1-282-66500-6; 9786612665004; 0-230-10316-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785025303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II