Eroticism, spirituality, and resistance in Black women's writings
By: Donna Aza Weir-Soley.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780813033778
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; African American women authors -- Intellectual life; Eroticism in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spirit and flesh: Black female aesthetics; title: Cult of nineteenth-century Black womanhood; title: Literary interventions in Their eyes were watching God; title: Contradictory directives and the erotics of re-membering: new world spiritual practices and black female subjectivity in Beloved; title: Erotics of change: female sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and a "postmodern" Caribbean identity in It begins with tears; title: Power eros and genocide: capitalism and Black female subjectivity in The farming of bones.