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6%OFFKimberly Nichele Brown - Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text - 9780253222466 - V9780253222466
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Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

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Description for Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text paperback. Trailblazing representations of black womanhood Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.

Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Series
Blacks in the Diaspora
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222466
SKU
V9780253222466
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About Kimberly Nichele Brown
Kimberly Nichele Brown is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University.

Reviews for Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text
Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva is a lovely book. Brown manages to reinvigorate common notions like wellness, healing, recovery, and pain with the kind of critical rigor that makes them useful in cultural studies but refuses to burden them with unnecessary complexity. . . . Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva and its ideas will be instructive for a very long ... Read more

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