Black women, identity, and cultural theory
Subtitle: (un)becoming the subject
By: Kevin Everod Quashie.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; African American women -- Intellectual life.; Women and literature -- United States.; African American women in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Women, Black -- Intellectual life.; African American photographers.; Group identity in literature.; African American aesthetics.; Women, Black, in literature.; Women photographers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what becomes; title: The other dancer as self : notes on girlfriend selfhood; title: Self(full)ness and the politics of community; title: Liminality and selfhood : toward being enough; title: An indisputable memory of blackness; title: The practice of a memory body; title: Toward a language aesthetic; title: My own, language; title: Conclusion : what is undone.