Changing the subject [electronic resource] : writing women across the African diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN: - 9780814273227
- 081427322X
- Culture in literature
- Collective memory in literature
- Slave trade in literature
- African Americans in literature
- African American women in literature
- West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American women -- History and criticism
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- 810.9/928708996073 23
- PS374.N4 S45 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.
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