New Black Feminist Criticism 1985 2000

Author : Barbara Christian
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090829
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 written by Barbara Christian and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate and celebrated pioneer in her own words New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in black feminist literary criticism. Published between the release of her second landmark book Black Feminist Criticism and her death, these writings include eloquent reviews, evaluations of black feminist criticism as a discipline, reflections on black feminism in the academy, and essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and others.

Author : Barbara Christian
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Feminist Criticism written by Barbara Christian and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1985 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on African-American women writers.

Author : Deborah E. McDowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Changing Same" written by Deborah E. McDowell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the 'Women's Era' of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the 'New Black Renaissance' of the 1970s and 1980s. This book discusses representations of slavery, sexuality, and homoeroticism.

Author : Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317550447
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism written by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful Beyoncé, formidable Rihanna, and the incalculable Nikki Minaj. Their images lead one to wonder: are they a new incarnation of black feminism and black women’s agency, or are they only pure fantasy in which, instead of having agency, they are in fact the products of the forces of patriarchy and commercialism? More broadly, one can ask whether black women in general are only being led to believe that they have power but are really being drawn back into more complicated systems of exploitation and oppression. Or, are black women subverting patriarchy by challenging notions of their subordinate and exploitable sexuality? In other words, ‘who is playing who’? Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism identifies a generational divide between traditional black feminists and younger black women. While traditional black feminists may see, for example, sexualized images of black women negatively and as an impediment to progress, younger black women tend to embrace these new images and see them in a positive light. After carefully setting up this divide, this enlightening book will suggest that a more complex understanding of black feminist agency needs to be developed, one that is adapted to the complexities faced by the younger generation in today’s world. Arguing the concept of agency as an important theme for black feminism, this innovative title will appeal to scholars, teachers, and students interested in black feminist and feminist philosophy, identity construction, subjectivity and agency, race, gender, and class.

Author : Joy James
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631210078
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Feminist Reader written by Joy James and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-06-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized into two parts, "Literary Theory" and "Social and Political Theory," this Reader explores issues of community, identity, justice, and the marginalization of African American and Caribbean women in literature, society, and political movements.

Author : Hans Bertens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040039693
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Theory: The Basics written by Hans Bertens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism. Literary Theory: The Basics shows, in an always lucid and accessible style, how literary theory and practice are connected, and considers key theories and approaches including: humanist criticism; structuralist and poststructuralist theory; postcolonial theory; posthumanism, ecocriticism, and animal studies; digital humanities and print culture studies. Literary theory has much to say about the wider world of humanities and beyond, and this guide helps readers to approach the many theories and debates with confidence. Expanded with updates throughout, this is the go-to guide for understanding literary theory today.

Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415924839
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Feminist Thought written by Patricia Hill Collins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Feminist Thought , Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She not only provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde, but she shows the importance of self-defined knowledge for group empowerment. In the tenth anniversary edition of this award-winning work, Patricia Hill Collins expands the basic arguments of the first edition by adding several important new themes. A new discussion of heterosexism as a system of power, an expanded treatment of images of Black womanhood, U.S. Black feminism's connections to Black Diasporic feminisms, and more attention to the importance of social class and nationalism all appear in the new edition. In addition, the new edition includes recent developments in black cultural studies, especially black popular culture, as well as recent events and trends such as the Anita Hill hearings and the backlash against affirmative action.

Author : Jacqueline Bobo
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631222408
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Feminist Cultural Criticism written by Jacqueline Bobo and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Feminist Cultural Criticism is the first comprehensive analysis of the full range of Black women's creative achievements. In this outsdanding collection, writers and scholars in literature, film, television, theatre, music, art, material culture, and other cultural forms explicate Black women's artistry within the context of an activist framework. The contributors are concerned with the politics of cultural production and the ways in which Black women have confronted institutional and social barriers.

Author : Elizabeth Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918150
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Subjects in Black and White written by Elizabeth Abel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities—as well as the transformative possibilities—between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.

Author : Aaron Lefkovitz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498555764
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons written by Aaron Lefkovitz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne's, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah’s transnational popular cultural struggles between domination and autonomy, with a particular emphasis on their films and popular music. Linking each performer to twentieth century U.S., African-American, and global gender histories and noting the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and empire in their overlapping transnational biographies, Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 connects Horne, Dandridge, and Latifah to each other and legacies of Hollywood stereotypes and popular music’s internationally-routed politics. Through a close reading of Horne's, Dandridge's, and Latifah’s films and popular music, the performers tie to historic black-transnational caricatures, from the “tragic mulatto” to Sapphire, Mammy, and Jezebel, and additional, non-white female performers, from Josephine Baker to Halle Berry, maneuvering within transnational popular culture industrial matrices and against white supremacist and hetero-patriarchal forces.