Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva – Women`s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text de Kimberly Nichel Brown

Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva – Women`s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

Kimberly Nichel Brown

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.

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Cuprins

Acknowledgments; Prelude1. From Soul Cleavage to Soul Survival: Double-Consciousness and the Emergence of the Decolonized Text/Subject; 2. "Who Is the Black Woman?": Repositioning the Gaze and Reconstructing Images in The Black Woman: An Anthology and Essence Magazine; 3. Constructing Diva Citizenship: The Enigmatic Angela Davis as Case Study; 4. Return to the Flesh: The Revolutionary Ideology behind the Poetry of Jayne Cortez; 5. She Dreams a World: The Decolonized Text and the New World Order, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters; Coda: This Is Not Just about "Inward Navel-Gazing": Decolonizing My Own Mind as a Critical StanceNotes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"The revolutionary divas in these works represent a response to the 'black woman as victim' argument that informs so much discussion of black women's subjectivity. [These] women writers emerge from the black folk experience not just as its representatives, but as an embodiment of its potential." Alice A. Deck, University of Illinois"Displays a richness and depth seldom seen in literary criticism these days." Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, Indiana University Bloomington