Kinitra D. Brooks

Searching for Sycorax

Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror

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Produktbeschreibung

"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 andinterrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 168mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780813584621
• ISBN-10: 0813584620
• Artikelnr.: 48955961

Autorenporträt

KINITRA D. BROOKS is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Searching for Sycorax:
Black Women and Horror 1
1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black
Women in Mainstream Horror Texts 16
2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability 41
3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre
Normativity 56
4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women’s Creative Horror 95
Conclusion. Sycorax’s Power of Revision:
Reconstructing Black Women’s Counternarratives 127
Appendix: Creative Work Summary 133
Notes 167
Index 195