The Resource Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora, K. Merinda Simmons
Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora, K. Merinda Simmons
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- Summary
- In Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora, K. Merinda Simmons argues that, in first-person narratives about women of color, contexts of migration illuminate constructions of gender and labor. These constructions and migrations suggest that the oft-employed notion of 2authenticity3 is not as useful a classification as many feminist and postcolonial scholars have assumed. Instead of relying on so-called authentic feminist journeys and heroines for her analysis, Simmons calls for a self-reflexive scholarship that takes seriously the scholar{u2019}s own role in constructing the subject. The starting point for this study is the nineteenth-century Caribbean narrative The History of Mary Prince (1831). Simmons puts Prince{u2019}s narrative in conversation with three twentieth-century novels: Zora Neale Hurston{u2019}s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gloria Naylor{u2019}s Mama Day, and Maryse Condé{u2019}s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. She incorporates autobiography theory to shift the critical focus from the object of study{u2014}slave histories{u2014}to the ways people talk about those histories and to the guiding interests of such discourses. In its reframing of women{u2019}s migration narratives, Simmons{u2019}s study unsettles theoretical certainties and disturbs the very notion of a cohesive diaspora. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 172 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780814212622
- Label
- Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora
- Title
- Changing the subject
- Title remainder
- writing women across the African diaspora
- Statement of responsibility
- K. Merinda Simmons
- Subject
-
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American literature -- African American women | History and criticism
- Collective memory in literature
- African American women in literature
- Slave trade in literature
- West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Culture in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Changing the Subject: Writing Women across the African Diaspora, K. Merinda Simmons argues that, in first-person narratives about women of color, contexts of migration illuminate constructions of gender and labor. These constructions and migrations suggest that the oft-employed notion of 2authenticity3 is not as useful a classification as many feminist and postcolonial scholars have assumed. Instead of relying on so-called authentic feminist journeys and heroines for her analysis, Simmons calls for a self-reflexive scholarship that takes seriously the scholar{u2019}s own role in constructing the subject. The starting point for this study is the nineteenth-century Caribbean narrative The History of Mary Prince (1831). Simmons puts Prince{u2019}s narrative in conversation with three twentieth-century novels: Zora Neale Hurston{u2019}s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gloria Naylor{u2019}s Mama Day, and Maryse Condé{u2019}s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. She incorporates autobiography theory to shift the critical focus from the object of study{u2014}slave histories{u2014}to the ways people talk about those histories and to the guiding interests of such discourses. In its reframing of women{u2019}s migration narratives, Simmons{u2019}s study unsettles theoretical certainties and disturbs the very notion of a cohesive diaspora. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1981-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Simmons, Merinda
- Dewey number
- 810.9/928708996073
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.N4
- LC item number
- S45 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American literature
- American literature
- West Indian literature (English)
- African American women in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Slave trade in literature
- Collective memory in literature
- Culture in literature
- Label
- Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora, K. Merinda Simmons
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 875520899
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 172 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814212622
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013050843
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)875520899
- Label
- Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora, K. Merinda Simmons
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 875520899
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 172 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814212622
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013050843
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)875520899
Subject
- American literature -- African American authors | History and criticism
- American literature -- African American women | History and criticism
- Collective memory in literature
- African American women in literature
- Slave trade in literature
- West Indian literature (English) -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Culture in literature
- African Americans in literature
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