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082 0 4 _a813.00809287
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBrooks, Kinitra D.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSearching for Sycorax :
_bBlack Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror /
_cKinitra Brooks, Kinitra D. Brooks.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (220 p.) :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror --
_t1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts --
_t2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability --
_t3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity --
_t4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women's Creative Horror --
_tConclusion. Sycorax's Power of Revision: Reconstructing Black Women's Counternarratives --
_tAppendix: Creative Work Summary --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAbout the Author
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSearching 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aAfrican American women authors.
650 0 _aAfrican American women in literature.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xWomen authors
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aFeminist theory.
650 0 _aHorror in literature.
650 0 _aHorror tales, American
_xSpecimens
_x21st century.
650 0 _aHorror tales, American
_y21st century
_vSpecimens.
650 0 _aWomen authors, Black
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aWomen, Black
_vFiction.
650 0 _aWomen, Black
_xFiction.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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653 _aEngland.
653 _aafrican literature.
653 _aafrican.
653 _adiaspora.
653 _ahaiti.
653 _ahorror fiction.
653 _ahorror.
653 _ajamaica.
653 _aliterature.
653 _ashakespeare.
653 _atempest.
653 _atrinidad.
653 _awomen.
700 1 _aBrooks, Kinitra
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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