TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooks,Kinitra D.
AU  - Brooks,Kinitra
TI  - Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror 
SN  - 9780813584621
AV  - PN56.H6 B76 2018
U1  - 813.00809287 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - African American women authors
KW  - African American women in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Horror in literature
KW  - Horror tales, American
KW  - Specimens
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Women authors, Black
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - Fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - England
KW  - african literature
KW  - african
KW  - diaspora
KW  - haiti
KW  - horror fiction
KW  - horror
KW  - jamaica
KW  - literature
KW  - shakespeare
KW  - tempest
KW  - trinidad
KW  - women
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 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 --; Notes --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813584645?locatt=mode:legacy
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