Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text (Blacks in the Diaspora) - Softcover

Brown, Kimberly Nichele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025322246X ISBN 13: 9780253222466

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Kimberly Nichele Brown is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University.

Review

"The revolutionary divas in these works represent a response to the 'black woman as victim' argument that informs so much discussion of black women's subjectivity. [These] women writers emerge from the black folk experience not just as its representatives, but as an embodiment of its potential."

(Alice A. Deck University of Illinois)

"Displays a richness and depth seldom seen in literary criticism these days."

(Carolyn Calloway-Thomas Indiana University Bloomington)

"Kimberly Brown's sweeping critical attention to the crucial, body-political texts of academically unappreciated marvels such as Jayne Cortez and Toni Cade Bambara could not be more welcome. This uncowed return to the thematics of decolonization is vital―what Black Studies and Black worlds need now more than ever with the world at large."

(Greg Thomas, author of The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power and Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh)

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 025322246X
• ISBN 13: 9780253222466
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 294