Searching for Sycorax : : Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror / / Kinitra Brooks, 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 that ha...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) :; 10 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror
- 1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts
- 2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability
- 3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity
- 4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women's Creative Horror
- Conclusion. Sycorax's Power of Revision: Reconstructing Black Women's Counternarratives
- Appendix: Creative Work Summary
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author