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Author Myles, Lynette D.

Title Female subjectivity in African American women's narratives of enslavement [electronic resource] : beyond borders / Lynette D. Myles.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 195 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-190).
Contents Introduction : places, borders, and margins : locating a Black feminist model of interpretation -- Black female movement : conceptualizing places of consciousness for Black female subjectivity -- Location, female autonomy, and identity in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- At the crossroads of Black female autonomy, or digression as resistance in Quicksand and The street -- Praisesong for the widow : crossing location and space toward female consciousness and wholeness -- Space and time : the interdependency of history, identity, and survival in Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Conclusion.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Consciousness in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Space and time -- Psychological aspects.
African American women -- Race identity.
African American women -- Psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780230615939 (alk. paper)
0230615937 (alk. paper)

 
    
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