Black women, writing, and identity
Subtitle: migrations of the subject
By: Carole Boyce Davies.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: American literature -- African 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; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries; African American women -- Intellectual life; African American women in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; African Americans in literature; Authorship -- Sex differences; Blacks in literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-222) and index.