African Diasporic Women’s Narratives Politics of Resistance Survival and Citizenship 1st Edition by Simone A James Alexander ISBN 0813049822 9780813049823

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ISBN 10: 0813049822

ISBN 13: 9780813049823 

Author: Simone A. James Alexander

African Literature Association Book of the Year Award in Scholarship – Honorable Mention 
 
“Critically engages current topical issues with sophisticated scholarly readings. There is a tone of the transgressive that gives this work the kind of edge that always provides transcendence.”–Carole Boyce Davies, author of Caribbean Spaces

“An authoritative and original study, characterized by meticulously researched scholarship, which focuses on the female body across a fascinating corpus of literary production in the Caribbean and elsewhere. This refreshing and effective interdisciplinary approach extends the boundaries of traditional literary analysis.”–E. Anthony Hurley, author of Through a Black Veil

“Brilliant. Alexander helps us to understand the complexities of race, gender, sexuality, migration, and identity as they intersect with creativity. A must-read for those interested in women’s writing today.”–Renée Larrier, author of Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean

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.

Simone A. James Alexander is professor of English at Seton Hall University and the author of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women.

Table of contents:

1. Acknowledgments

2. Introduction: Dis-Embodied Subjects Writing Fire

3. Captive Flesh No More: Saartjie Baartman, Quintessential Migratory Subject

4. “Crimes against the Flesh”: Politics and Poetics of the Black Female Body

5. Framing Violence: Resistance, Redemption, and Recuperative Strategies in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

6. Mothering the Nation: Women’s Bodies as Nationalist Trope in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory

7. Performing the Body: Transgressive Doubles, Fatness and Blackness

8. Bodies and DisEase: Finding AlterNative Cure, Assuming AlterNative Identity

9. Notes

10. Bibliography

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