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African Diasporic Women's Narratives
African Diasporic Women’s Narratives
Audre Lorde
Author_Simone A. James Alexander
Barbara Smith
bell hooks
blackness
body
borderlands
boundary
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citizenship
deviance
discourse
disease
Edwidge Danticat
embodied
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ethnicity
female
feminism
Grace Nichols
Haiti
hegemony
heteronormative
homeland
Hortense Spillers
identity
Ifi Amaduime
immigration
indigenous
intersectional
lesbian
marginalization
maroon
masculinist
migration
militarization
mobility
motherhood
nationalism
Paul Farmer
personhood
politics
queer
race
racism
rape
resilience
resistance
Saartjie Baartman
sexuality
Simone James Alexander
slave
subjectivity
Tituba
transgressive
transnationalism
violation
western
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062051
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Using feminist and womanist theory, Simone Alexander takes as her main point of analysis literary works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration. She shows that over time black women have used their bodily presence to complicate and challenge a migratory process often forced upon them by men or patriarchal society.
Through in-depth study of selective texts by Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Condé, and Grace Nichols, Alexander challenges the stereotypes ascribed to black female sexuality, subverting its assumed definition as diseased, passive, or docile. She also addresses issues of embodiment as she analyzes how women's bodies are read and seen; how bodies ""perform"" and are performed upon; how they challenge and disrupt normative standards.
A multifaceted contribution to studies of gender, race, sexuality, and disability issues, African Diasporic Women's Narratives engages with a range of issues as it grapples with the complex interconnectedness of geography, citizenship, and nationalism.
Through in-depth study of selective texts by Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Condé, and Grace Nichols, Alexander challenges the stereotypes ascribed to black female sexuality, subverting its assumed definition as diseased, passive, or docile. She also addresses issues of embodiment as she analyzes how women's bodies are read and seen; how bodies ""perform"" and are performed upon; how they challenge and disrupt normative standards.
A multifaceted contribution to studies of gender, race, sexuality, and disability issues, African Diasporic Women's Narratives engages with a range of issues as it grapples with the complex interconnectedness of geography, citizenship, and nationalism.
Simone A. James Alexander is professor of English at Seton Hall University, USA and the author of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women.
