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.
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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.