Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement [electronic resource] : Beyond Borders /
Myles, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190).
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.
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.
Sociology.
America—History.
America—Literatures.
Gender Studies.
History of the Americas.
North American Literature.