Searching for Sycorax : Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
- List Price: $99.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publish date: 12/07/2017
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Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror 1 1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts 16 2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability 41 3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity 56 4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women's Creative Horror 95 Conclusion. Sycorax's Power of Revision: Reconstructing Black Women's Counternarratives 127 Appendix: Creative Work Summary 133 Notes 167 Index 195
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