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African diasporic women's narratives : politics of resistance, survival, and citizenship
Title
African diasporic women's narratives : politics of resistance, survival, and citizenship / Simone A. James Alexander.
ISBN
9780813049823
0813049822
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
ix, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Using feminist and womanist theory, Alexander takes as her main point of analysis works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration, in the process successfully demonstrating that diaspora has a different meaning for women than men.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Dis-embodied subjects writing fire
Captive flesh no more: Saartjie Baartman, quintessential migratory subject
"Crimes against the flesh": politics and poetics of the black female body
Framing violence: resistance, redemption, and recuperative strategies in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem
Mothering the nation: women's bodies as nationalist trope in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory
Performing the body: transgressive doubles, fatness and blackness
Bodies and disease: finding alternative cure, assuming alternative identity.
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