Kimberly Nichele Brown

Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva

Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780253222466
• ISBN-10: 025322246X
• Artikelnr.: 29978144

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Nichele Brown is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prelude
1. From Soul Cleavage to Soul Survival: Double-Consciousness and the
Emergence of the Decolonized Text/Subject
2. "Who Is the Black Woman?": Repositioning the Gaze and Reconstructing
Images in The Black Woman: An Anthology and Essence Magazine
3. Constructing Diva Citizenship: The Enigmatic Angela Davis as Case Study
4. Return to the Flesh: The Revolutionary Ideology behind the Poetry of
Jayne Cortez
5. She Dreams a World: The Decolonized Text and the New World Order, Toni
Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters
Coda: This Is Not Just about "Inward Navel-Gazing": Decolonizing My Own
Mind as a Critical Stance
Notes
Bibliography
Index