Searching for Sycorax : : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks.
"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 t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : : Rutgers University Press,, [2018] 2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.