Description
Book SynopsisTrailblazing representations of black womanhood
Trade ReviewWriting the Black Revolutionary Diva is a lovely book. Brown manages to reinvigorate common notions like wellness, healing, recovery, and pain with the kind of critical rigor that makes them useful in cultural studies but refuses to burden them with unnecessary complexity. . . . Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva and its ideas will be instructive for a very long time to come.
* Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *
Brown's work is one of the most thorough studies and critiques of black women's writing to date. September, 2011
* H-1960s *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Prelude
1. From Soul Cleavage to Soul Survival: Double-Consciousness and the Emergence of the Decolonized Text/Subject
2. "Who Is the Black Woman?": Repositioning the Gaze and Reconstructing Images in The Black Woman: An Anthology and Essence Magazine
3. Constructing Diva Citizenship: The Enigmatic Angela Davis as Case Study
4. Return to the Flesh: The Revolutionary Ideology behind the Poetry of Jayne Cortez
5. She Dreams a World: The Decolonized Text and the New World Order, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters
Coda: This Is Not Just about "Inward Navel-Gazing": Decolonizing My Own Mind as a Critical Stance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
