Title: Writing the black revolutionary diva : women's subjectivity and the decolonizing text /
Authors: Brown, Kimberly Nichele
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: American literature African American authors History and criticism; African American women authors; African American women in literature; African American women Race identity.; Subjectivity in literature
Abstract: "Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the 'double consciousness' of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez"--Publisher description.
Contents: From soul cleavage to soul survival: Double-consciousness and the emergence of the decolonized text/subject -- Who is the Black woman ?: repositioning the gaze and reconstructing images in the black woman: An anthology and Essence magazine -- Constructing Diva citizenship: The enigmatic Angela Davis as case study -- Return to the flesh: The revolutionary ideology behind the poetry of Jayne Cortez -- She dreams a world: The decolonized text and the new world order, Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters" -- CODA: This is not about "inward navel-gazing": Decolonizing my own mind as a critical stance.