Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / Kinitra D. Brooks.

By: Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: 2018Description: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813584645Subject(s): Horror in literature | African American women authors | Women authors, Black -- History and criticism | Feminist theoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror.DDC classification: 823/.08738099287 LOC classification: PN56.H6 | B76 2018Online resources: Click to View
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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