Changing the Subject
Writing Women Across the African Diaspora
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Word Count
50,000 words, Guess
Page Count
200 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivechangingsubjectw0000simm
- ISBN-139780814293669
- ISBN-100814293662
- OCLC Control Number875520899
- OCLC Control Number2013050843
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780814293669
- Open LibraryOL29694222M
Classifications
- LCCPS374.N4 S45 2014
Description
"The starting point for this study is the nineteenth-century Caribbean narrative The History of Mary Prince (1831). Simmons puts Prince's narrative in conversation with three twentieth-century novels: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, and Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. She incorporates autobiography theory to shift the critical focus from the object of study--slave histories--to the ways people talk about those histories and to the guiding interests of such discourses. In its reframing of women's migration narratives, Simmons's study unsettles theoretical certainties and disturbs the very notion of a cohesive diaspora." -- Publisher's description.
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