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Author:

Simmons, Merinda, 1981- author.

Title:

Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora / K. Merinda Simmons.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 172 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
West Indian literature (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Slave trade in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Culture in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

081421262X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212622 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)875520899

LCCN:

2013050843

Locations:

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

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)