- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"--
- Uniform Title
- Searching for Sycorax (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Searching for Sycorax (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: black women and horror -- The importance of neglected intersections: characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts -- Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability -- Black women writing fluid fiction: an open challenge to genre normativity -- Folkloric horror: a new way of reading black women's creative horror -- Conclusion Sycorax's power of revision: reconstructing black women's counter-narratives -- Appendix: creative work summary.
- LCCN
- 2017033671
- OCLC
- ssj0001922708
- Author
Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun.
- Title
Searching for Sycorax [electronic resource] : Black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / Kinitra D. Brooks.
- Imprint
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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