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050	0	4	_aPS153 _b.A375 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aAlexander, Simone A. James, _d1967- _e1
245	1	0	_aAfrican diasporic women's narratives : _bpolitics of resistance, survival, and citizenship / _cSimone A. James Alexander.
260			_aGainesville : _bUniversity Press of Florida, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (238 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Dis-embodied subjects writing fire -- _tCaptive flesh no more: Saartjie Baartman, quintessential migratory subject -- _t"Crimes against the flesh": politics and poetics of the black female body -- _tFraming violence: resistance, redemption, and recuperative strategies in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- _tMothering the nation: women's bodies as nationalist trope in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- _tPerforming the body: transgressive doubles, fatness and blackness -- _tBodies and disease: finding alternative cure, assuming alternative identity.
520	0		_a"Using feminist and womanist theory, Simone Alexander takes as her main point of analysis literary works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration. She shows that over time black women have used their bodily presence to complicate and challenge a migratory process often forced upon them by men or patriarchal society. Through in-depth study of selective texts by Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Condé, and Grace Nichols, Alexander challenges the stereotypes ascribed to black female sexuality, subverting its assumed definition as diseased, passive, or docile. She also addresses issues of embodiment as she analyses how women's bodies are read and seen; how bodies 'perform' and are performed upon; how they challenge and disrupt normative standards. A multifaceted contribution to studies of gender, race, sexuality and disability issues, African Diasporic Women's Narratives engages with a range of issues as it grapples with the complex interconnectedness of geography, citizenship, and nationalism"--Provided by publisher.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAfrican American women in literature.
650		0	_aHuman body in literature.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=656611&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell