Searching for Sycorax : : Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Brooks, Kinitra D.,
Brooks, Kinitra,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017]
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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

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