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Author Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun, author.

Title Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / Kinitra D. Brooks
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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Contents Introduction. searching for Sycorax : black women and horror -- 1. The importance of neglected intersections : characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts -- 2. Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability -- 3. Black women writing fluid fiction : an open challenge to genre normativity -- 4. Folkloric horror : a new way of reading black women's creative horror -- Conclusion. Sycorax's power of revision : reconstructing black women's counternarratives -- Appendix : creative work summary
Summary Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the African diaspora, from Haiti, Trinidad, and Jamaica, to England and the United States, looking at new and canonized horror texts by Nalo Hopkinson, NK Jemisin, Gloria Naylor, and Chesya Burke. These Black women fiction writers take advantage of horror's ability to highlight U.S. white dominant cultural anxieties by using Africana folklore to revise horror's semiotics within their own imaginary. Ultimately, Brooks compares the legacy of Shakespeare's Sycorax (of The Tempest) to Black women writers themselves, who, deprived of mainstream access to self-articulation, nevertheless influence the trajectory of horror criticism by forcing the genre to de-centralize whiteness and maleness
Analysis England
african literature
african
diaspora
haiti
horror fiction
horror
jamaica
literature
shakespeare
tempest
trinidad
women
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Horror tales, American -- 21st century -- Specimens
African American women authors.
African American women in literature.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women, Black -- Fiction
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
African American women authors
African American women in literature
American literature -- African American authors
American literature -- Women authors
Horror tales, American
Women, Black
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Fiction
Specimens
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813584638
0813584639
9780813584645
0813584647