Title: Black women, writing, and identity : migrations of the subject /
Authors: Boyce Davies, Carole
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1994
Subjects: American literature Afro-American authors History and criticism.; English literature Foreign countries History and criticism; American literature Women authors History and criticism.; English literature Black authors History and criticism; English literature Women authors History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature; African Americans in literature; Authorship Sex differences; Black people in literature; Women and literature
Abstract: "Black Women, Writing, and Identity is a salient examination of black women's writing and the politics of subjectivity and identity. Emerging out a critical need to situate black women's writing in a cross-cultural perspective, Carole Boyce Davies investigates critically the complexities, the contradictions, and the constraints which both determine and displace the black women writer's identity. Treating such issues as locationality and naming, Carol Boyce Davies produces a remarkably imaginative and acutely exciting discussion of the what she uniquely terms the "migratory subject.""--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Migratory subjectivities: Black women's writing and the re- negotiation of identities -- Negotiating theories or "going a piece of the way with them" -- Deconstructing African female subjectivities: Anowa's borderlands -- From "post-colonoality" to uprising textualities: Black women writing the critique of empire -- Writing home: Gender, heritage and identity in Afro- Caribbean women's writings in the US -- Mobility, embodiment and resistance: Black women's writing in the US -- Other tongues: Gender, language, sexuality and the politics of location.