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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)becoming the Subject

Book by Kevin Everod Quashie; Rutgers University Press, 2004

Subjects:

African American Aesthetics, African American Photographers, African American Women In Literature, African American Women--Intellectual Life, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Group Identity In Literature, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Women And Literature--United States, Women Photographers, Women, Black, In Literature, Women, Black--Intellectual Life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girl-friend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ara Aidoo, Dionne ...
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In Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girl-friend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ara Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and many others, inform debates over the concept of identity. Quashie argues that these authors and artists replace the notion of a stable, singular identity with the concept of the self developing in a process both communal and perpetually fluid, a relationship that functions in much the same way that an adult woman negotiates with her girlfriend(s). He suggests that memory itself is corporeal, a literal body that is crucial to the process of becoming. Quashie also explores the problem language poses for the black woman artist and her commitment to a mastery that neither colonizes nor excludes. The analysis throughout interacts with schools of thought such as psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and post-colonialism, but ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic, one that ultimately aims to center black women and their philosophies.
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Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered

Book by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

African American Women In Literature, African American Women--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Femininity In Literature, Feminism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Slavery In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history ...
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The neo-slave narrative is an important development in American literary history and has serious revisionist intentions at its foundation. This book examines how contemporary African American women writers have shaped the genre. These authors have written neo-slave narratives to reinscribe history from the perspective of the African American woman, most specifically the nineteenth century enslaved mother. The writers considered in this study--Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Gayl Jones, and Octavia Butler--explore American slavery through the lens of gender, both to interrogate the myth that enslaved women, denied the privilege of having a gender identity by the institution of slavery, were in fact genderless, and to celebrate the acts of resistance which enabled enslaved women to mother in the fullest sense of the term.
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Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America

Book by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory; Praeger, 1990

Subjects:

African American Theater--History, African Americans In Literature, American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Drama--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Drama--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights. It will be useful to scholars in the fields of black and women's literature and an excellent source of background reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on American women playwrights. The author's training as both a ...
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"This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights. It will be useful to scholars in the fields of black and women's literature and an excellent source of background reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on American women playwrights. The author's training as both a scholar and a playwright is evident in this book." Choice
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Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women

Book by Stanlie M. James, Abena P. A. Busia; Routledge, 1993

Subjects:

African American Women, Feminist Theory, Pragmatism, Women, Black

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Theorizing Black Feminisms outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In so doing it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by Black women scholars, celebrating Black women's agency and pragmatic activism. Refusing to be ...
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Theorizing Black Feminisms outlines some of the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In so doing it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by Black women scholars, celebrating Black women's agency and pragmatic activism. Refusing to be limited by notions of disciplinary boundaries or divisions between theory and practice, Theorizing Black Feminisms draws on literature, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and art. In four sections - on `revising paradigms', `theory and action', `controlling our bodies', and `the language of identities', sixteen essays cover a range of diverse issues, including: * Theorizing race, class and gender in the new Black feminist scholarship * Women and collective action * Rape, HIV transmission, abortion and African-American women * Discouse, critique and identity: languages of the self Theorizing Black Feminisms is vital reading for anyone - activist, student, artist or scholar - interested in exploring the multidisciplinary possiblities of Black feminism. Exciting and innovative, the volume both reflects and intervenes in a rapidly expanding field.
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Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain

Book by Gabriele Griffin; Cambridge University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Asians In Literature, Asians--Great Britain--Intellectual Life, English Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Drama--21st Century--History And Criticism, English Drama--Asian Authors--History And Criticism, English Drama--Black Authors--History And Criticism, English Drama--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--Great Britain, Feminist Drama, English--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain, Women, Black, In Literature, Women, Black--Great Britain--Intellectual Life

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...call from Talawa inviting new, black women to send in stage scripts (Stephenson...by British Asian - as well as Black - women playwrights. Bands such as Asian...we - inhabit. Many plays by Black women playwrights, for instance, inter...

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"When Black Women Start Going on Prozac": Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me

Journal article by Anna Mollow; MELUS, Vol. 31, 2006

Subjects:

African American women--Health aspects, Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama--Works, Disability studies, Memoirs, Mental disorders--Portrayals, Mental illness--Portrayals, Sexual politics--Portrayals, Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression (Autobiography), Women authors--Works, Women writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...disorder," which, the authors of the study note, is...patients believed to be black men at a rate of 43...white men, 10% for white women, and 12% for black women (615). (20.) An awareness...beliefs about being strong Black women" with "having an illness...
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American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869

Journal article by Thomas Lilly; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 24, 2007

Subjects:

American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...desperate, historical circumstances in which authors encountered the limits of the law. Joyce...productively informed nineteenth-century women writers experiences. Rather, in Women...Harriet Wilsons Our Nig "a downer for black readers" because Harriet Wilson could...
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Early Black Women Playwrights and the Dual Liberation Motif

Journal article by Will Harris; African American Review, Vol. 28, 1994

Subjects:

African American women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American literature--African American authors, Drama--Stories, plots, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...is. 2. By us. That is, they must be written by Negro authors who understand from birth and continuing association...from its own historical and cultural roots. Would-be black women playwrights rushed to this call. Kathy Perkins points...
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To Build a Nation: Black Women Writers, Black Nationalism, and the Violent Reduction of Wholeness

Journal article by Amanda J. Davis; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 26, 2005

Subjects:

African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Works, African American women--Social aspects, Sex discrimination--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...quality of violence is made apparent in part because both authors deconstruct the boundaries of public and private space...novelists most daring, transferred onto the bodies of black women by black men. In both Corregidora and The Third Life...
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Violence in the Lives of Black Women

Journal article by Marcie Parker; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 35, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Violence in the Lives of Black Women (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...of view. The authors use a feminist...the lives of Black women, including...trauma and Black women who have been...problems, the authors also offer...all of these authors and researchers...complicate how Black women can seek help...

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What's Behind the Big Boom in Black Women Writers

Magazine article by Charles Whitaker; Ebony, Vol. 55, March 2000

Subjects:

African American women authors--Works, African American women--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of the five Black authors whose books...Oprah were women (Toni Morrison...A number of women have told me...with so many Black authors to choose from...read White women authors." The timing...publishing by Black writers is...
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The Different Faces of Contemporary Black Women

Magazine article by Joy Bennett Kinnon; Ebony, Vol. 53, March 1998

Subjects:

African American women--Officials and employees, Women, Black--Officials and employees

Collections: Entire Library

...dynamic, the most incredible women who have inspired and...reading mystery novels by Black authors or listening to Gladys...of those 19, only seven women direct programs with football...excited to be the first Black woman in this elite cadre...
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Commentary: Black and Asian Novelists Have Never Been More Commercially Successful. but Who Is Profiting? Not Independent Publishers, That's for Sure, as Vastiana Belfon Discovered When She Set Up Brown Skin Books, Specialising in Erotic Fiction by Black Women

Magazine article by Vastiana Belfon; New Statesman, Vol. 133, June 7, 2004

Subjects:

Book publishing--Personal narratives, Minority authors--Personal narratives, Minority authors--Social aspects, Minority writers--Personal narratives, Minority writers--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...as a publisher of erotic fiction by black women. Suffice to say that, to survive as an independent black publisher, it will be necessary to find...success of African American and black British authors on both sides of the Atlantic, might yet...
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100 MOST FASCINATING BLACK WOMEN OF THE 20th CENTURY

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 54, March 1999

Subjects:

African American women--Achievements and awards

Collections: Entire Library

...HARRIS (Below) (1924-1985) The first Black woman to serve in a United States presidents...victories that helped redefine the role of women in politics and business. DOROTHY HEIGHT...Renaissance and one of the most widely published authors of the 30s and 40s. MAHALIA JACKSON...
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Black Women Writers Are Making Herstory

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 60, March 2005

Subjects:

Afterburn (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists (Book)--Book reviews, Speak So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale (Book)--Book reviews, Venus & Serena: Serving from the Hip: 10 Rules for Living, Loving and Winning (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...prominent Black woman authors as their literary mother...in one of the few all-Black municipalities in the...overcoming spirit of Black women artists is CREATING THEIR...immeasurable contributions of Black women artists to American Art...

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SUPPORTING SISTERS: A Bookstore Where Black Women Can Talk

Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, April 9, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...prose by black female authors and poets. Sisterspace...sanctuary. Here, black womens achievements...African American Women Writers Conference...workshops and readings by authors. On Saturday afternoons...African-American women can come and feel...how that affects black women - mothers or...
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Books: Women (over 45) This Way Please; Recent Research Suggests That Men Still Mainly Read Works by Other Men. So Does the Launch of a New Publishing House Aimed Solely at Women over 45 Just Ghettoise Female Authors Further, Asks Literary Editor Caroline Foulkes

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 4, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...he writes romantic novels. Oh, and hes black, too. Which just goes to prove that writing...of gender or race. And what about the authors of Anna Karenina, Tess of the DUrbervilles...men, all writing about womens lives. Women writers are just as capable of writing...
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Unwed Women Set Record for Births in 2003; Rate for Teens Falls Again

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 9, 2005

Subjects:

Teenagers--Reports, United States. National Center for Health Statistics--Reports, Women--Reports, Youth--Reports

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...per 1,000 teens, but the birthrate for black teens has fallen by 67 percent over those...1940, said Stephanie Ventura, one of the authors of the NCHS report. In the past, the steady...concurrent rise in the number of unmarried women, she said. But the 4 percent increase...
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Pitch Black; Books

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 4, 1996

Subjects:

Black, Conrad

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...she said, in a discourse entitled Why Women Marry Up, `is sexy, not simply in its...part of those who approach it. No doubt Black still inspires shivers of subservience...Siklos, although he may regret that the authors grasp of English phraseology is a little...
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Revealed, Scotland's Forgotten Heroines; Dictionary Charts Lives of the Women Who Shaped History

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 3, 2006

Subjects:

History, Macbeth (Play), Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Countess Agnes Randolph, better known as Black Agnes, wife of Patrick, fourth Earl of...details the contributions of more ordinary women. One such was Maggie McIver, who started...was a standard text for half a century. Authors of the dictionary point out that while...

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...lives of minorities and women. Beginning with Lorraine...Somebody (1967) explored black American life; writers...continued to define the black American experience in...century. Feminist and other women-centered themes dramatized...provocative female-themed one-women shows such as Eve Enslers...
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Turkey , Country, Asia and Europe

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Entire Library

...makes "insulting Turkishness" a crime led to several highly publicized controversial court cases (2005 6) against well-known authors, but most of the cases were dismissed. However, the law and other human rights issues, as well as Turkeys relations with Cyprus...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies,

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