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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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