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Black women, identity, and cultural theory :

081355540X

9780813555409

081353366X

0813533678

9780813533667

9780813533674

Black women, identity, and cultural theory :

[Book]

(un)becoming the subject /

Kevin Everod Quashie.

New Brunswick :

Rutgers University Press,

©2004.

1 online resource (1 volume)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.

Introduction : what becomes -- The other dancer as self : notes on girlfriend selfhood -- Self(full)ness and the politics of community -- Liminality and selfhood : toward being enough -- An indisputable memory of blackness -- The practice of a memory body -- Toward a language aesthetic -- My own, language -- Conclusion : what is undone.

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Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girlfriend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and many others, inform debates over the concept of identity. Quashie argues that these artists replace the notion of a stable, singular identity with the concept of the self developing in a process both communal and perpetually fluid, a relationship that functions in much the same way that an adult woman negotiates with her girlfriend(s). He suggests that memory itself is corporeal, a literal body that is crucial to the process of becoming. Quashie also explores the problem that language poses for the black woman artist and her commitment to a mastery that neither colonizes nor excludes. The analysis throughout this book interacts with schools of thought such as psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and postcolonialism, but.

Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.

Black women, identity, and cultural theory.

0813533678

African American aesthetics.

African American photographers.

African American women in literature.

African American women-- Intellectual life.

American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

Group identity in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Women and literature-- United States.

Women photographers.

Women, Black-- Intellectual life.

Women, Black, in literature.

African American aesthetics.

African American photographers.

African American women in literature.

African American women-- Intellectual life.

Ethnische Identität

Frauenliteratur

Group identity in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Schriftstellerin

Schwarze

Schwarze Frau

Women and literature.

Women photographers.

Women, Black-- Intellectual life.

Women, Black, in literature.

United States.

USA.

USA.

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Quashie, Kevin Everod.

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