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Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the 'girlfriend' as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison and Ama Ata Aidoo inform the debates over the concept of identity.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Becomes...
Chapter 1 - The Other Dancer as Self: Notes on Girlfriend Selfhood
Chapter 2 - Self(full)ness and the Politics of Community
Chapter 3 - Liminality and Selfhood: Toward Being Enough
Chapter 4 - An Indisputable Memory of Blackness
Chapter 5 - The Practice of a Memory Body
Chapter 6 - Toward a Language Aesthetic
Chapter 7 - My Own, Language
Conclusion... What is Undone

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Black Women Identity and Cultural Theory

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 24/12/2003
      ISBN13: 9780813533674, 978-0813533674
      ISBN10: 0813533678
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      Literary studies: general Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the 'girlfriend' as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison and Ama Ata Aidoo inform the debates over the concept of identity.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: What Becomes...
      Chapter 1 - The Other Dancer as Self: Notes on Girlfriend Selfhood
      Chapter 2 - Self(full)ness and the Politics of Community
      Chapter 3 - Liminality and Selfhood: Toward Being Enough
      Chapter 4 - An Indisputable Memory of Blackness
      Chapter 5 - The Practice of a Memory Body
      Chapter 6 - Toward a Language Aesthetic
      Chapter 7 - My Own, Language
      Conclusion... What is Undone

      Notes
      Works Cited
      Index

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