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Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora

Title
Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons.
Author
Simmons, Merinda, 1981-
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]

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Description
xii, 172 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
Sc E 15-10
ISBN
  • 9780814212622 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 081421262X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780814293669 (cd rom) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013050843
  • 40024150057
OCLC
875520899
Author
Simmons, Merinda, 1981- author.
Title
Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons.
Publisher
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40024150057
Research Call Number
Sc E 15-10
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