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Female subjectivity in African American women's narratives of enslavement : beyond borders
Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness.
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\GOING AFTER SOMETHING ELSE\: Sapphire on the Evolution from \PUSH\ to Precious and The Kid
McNeil interviews Sapphire, author of the novel PUSH. Among other things, Sapphire sheds lights on the adaptation of PUSH to the screen as Precious (2010)--the process, her involvement, and her assessment of the completed project.
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Beyond borders: Black women, space, and female subjectivity in African American women's narratives of enslavement
This dissertation focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate locations for a changed black female consciousness. The dissertation theorizes black female movement within female narratives of enslavement, showing black female characters figuratively and literally crossing borders of marginalization and repositioning themselves outside boundaries that keep them restricted. Using these works, the study investigates how female narratives of enslavement present images of transgressions, border crossings, and even boundaries of the self. The dissertation also examines when and how black women cross physical, psychological, and metaphorical boundaries to define their lives outside racially and patriarchally biased orders. The examination of crossing \"borders\" assesses the impetus behind African American women radically transgressing into different landscapes, and answers how the move is actualized. The assessment considers the final outcome of the movement from within, in-between, and beyond spaces. The study offers the concept of the \"Transient Woman\" as a new paradigm which considers Homi K. Bhabha's \"Third Space\" and Gloria Anzaldua's \"New Mestiza\" as methods of scrutinizing black female subjectivity and female consciousness through \"going beyond\" fixed boundaries. The dissertation concludes that African American women's movement towards a new black female consciousness and black female autonomy is best initiated and politicized in sites outside hegemonic order.
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