Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2014Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (214 pages)Content type: - text
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- 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
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.
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