African diasporic women's narratives [electronic resource] : politics of resistance, survival, and citizenship / Simone A. James Alexander.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780813048871
- 0813048877
- 810.9/928708996073 23
- PS153.N5 A3986 2014
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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