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Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject

by Carole BoyceDavies

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Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering * gender, language and show more the politics of location Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of show less

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Genres: Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
LCC: PS153 .N5 .D32 — Language and Literature American literature American literature
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Published: 1994
Genres: Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 810.9
LCC: PS153 .N5 .D32

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