Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / Kinitra D. Brooks.
Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun, author.
2018
PN56.H6 B76 2018
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Title Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / Kinitra D. Brooks.
Author Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun, author.
ISBN 9780813584621
9780813584614
9780813584645 (electronic book)
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (220 pages)
Call Number PN56.H6 B76 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.08738099287
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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