Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks |
Autore | Brooks Kinitra Dechaun |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [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 |
ISBN |
0-8135-8464-7
0-8135-8463-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796599203321 |
Brooks Kinitra Dechaun
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New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks |
Autore | Brooks Kinitra Dechaun |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [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 |
ISBN |
0-8135-8464-7
0-8135-8463-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816703103321 |
Brooks Kinitra Dechaun
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New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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