Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora /
Simmons, Merinda, 1981-
Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons. - 1 online resource (214 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.
Open Access
English.
9780814273227
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
West Indian literature (English)--Women authors.
Slave trade in literature.
Culture in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
American literature--African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
African American women in literature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Esclaves--Commerce, dans la litterature.
Memoire collective dans la litterature.
Culture dans la litterature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--African American women--History and criticism.
West Indian literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Slave trade in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Culture in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons. - 1 online resource (214 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.
Open Access
English.
9780814273227
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
West Indian literature (English)--Women authors.
Slave trade in literature.
Culture in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
American literature--African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
African American women in literature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Esclaves--Commerce, dans la litterature.
Memoire collective dans la litterature.
Culture dans la litterature.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--African American women--History and criticism.
West Indian literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Slave trade in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Culture in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.