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Author:

Quashie, Kevin Everod.

Title:

Black women, identity, and cultural theory : (un)becoming the subject / Kevin Everod Quashie.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
African American women--Intellectual life.
Women and literature--United States.
African American women in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Women, Black--Intellectual life.
African American photographers.
Group identity in literature.
African American aesthetics.
Women, Black, in literature.
Women photographers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : what becomes -- The other dancer as self : notes on girlfriend selfhood -- Self(full)ness and the politics of community -- Liminality and selfhood : toward being enough -- An indisputable memory of blackness -- The practice of a memory body -- Toward a language aesthetic -- My own, language -- Conclusion : what is undone.

ISBN:

9780813533674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813533678 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813533667 (hardcover : alk. paper)
081353366X (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51942593

LCCN:

2003007035

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)