African diasporic women's narratives : politics of resistance, survival, and citizenship

• Tác giả: Simone A. James Alexander
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9780813049823 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 810.9928708996073 American literature in English
• Mô tả vật lý: ix, 238 pages ; , 24 c
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 349216
• Chủ đề: 1. African American women in literature; 2. American literature--African American authors; 3. American literature--History and criticism--20th century; 4. Human body in literature

Includes bibliographic references (pages 211-226) and index

Tóm tắt

Using feminist and womanist theory, Alexander takes as her main point of analysis works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration, in the process successfully demonstrating that diaspora has a different meaning for women than men