Writing the black revolutionary diva : women's subjectivity and the decolonizing text /

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Author / Creator:	Brown, Kimberly Nichele.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 280 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Blacks in the diaspora Blacks in the diaspora.
Subject:	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. African American women authors. African American women in literature. African American women -- Race identity. Subjectivity in literature. African American women authors. African American women in literature. African American women -- Race identity. American literature -- African American authors. Subjectivity in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11284318

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ISBN:	9780253004703 0253004705 9780253355256 0253355257 9780253222466 025322246X
Notes:	Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 16, 2012). Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. 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.
Other form:	Print version: Brown, Kimberly Nichele. Writing the black revolutionary diva. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253355256
Standard no.:	9786612818431

Table of Contents:

From soul cleavage to soul survival: Double-consciousness and the emergence of the decolonized text/subject
Who is the Black woman?: repositioning the gaze and reconstructing images in the black woman: An anthology and Essence magazine
Constructing Diva citizenship: The enigmatic Angela Davis as case study
Return to the flesh: The revolutionary ideology behind the poetry of Jayne Cortez
She dreams a world: The decolonized text and the new world order, Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters"
CODA: This is not about "inward navel-gazing": Decolonizing my own mind as a critical stance.

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