City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

Writing the black revolutionary diva, women's subjectivity and the decolonizing text, Kimberly Nichele Brown

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

index present

non fiction

Writing the black revolutionary diva

bibliography

Kimberly Nichele Brown

Blacks in the diaspora

women's subjectivity and the decolonizing text

"Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the 'double consciousness' of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez"--Publisher description

From soul cleavage to soul survival: Double-consciousness and the emergence of the decolonized text/subject -- Who is the Black woman ?: repositioning the gaze and reconstructing images in the black woman: An anthology and Essence magazine -- Constructing Diva citizenship: The enigmatic Angela Davis as case study -- Return to the flesh: The revolutionary ideology behind the poetry of Jayne Cortez -- She dreams a world: The decolonized text and the new world order, Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters" -- CODA: This is not about "inward navel-gazing": Decolonizing my own mind as a critical stance