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African diasporic women's narratives

Alexander, Simone A. James, 1967-

African diasporic women's narratives politics of resistance, survival, and citizenship / [electronic resource] : Simone A. James Alexander. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

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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American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Human body in literature.
African American women in literature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / A3986 2014

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