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BLACK WOMEN, WRITING AND IDENTITY
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1 INTRODUCTION: MIGRATORY SUBJECTIVITIES: BLACK WOMEN’S WRITING AND THE RE-NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITIES
RE-MAPPING AND RE-NAMING: ON THE IDEOLOGIES OF TERMINOLOGIES
CROSSINGS: RE-CONNECTIONS AND INVASIONS
REDEFINING OUR GEOGRAPHY
TOURIST IDEOLOGY OR “PLAYFUL WORLD TRAVELLING”
BLACK WOMEN’S WRITING AND CRITICAL MOVEMENTS
2 NEGOTIATING THEORIES OR “GOING A PIECE OF THE WAY WITH THEM”
NEGOTIATING THEORIES
GOING A PIECE OF THE WAY WITH THEM
PROBLEMATIZING THEORETICAL BLACK NATIONALIST HOMELANDS
RE-READING POSTMODERNISM AND FEMINISM
CRITICAL RELATIONALITY: COMPLICATING WOMEN OF COLOR FEMINIST CRITICAL POSITIONS
3 DECONSTRUCTING AFRICAN FEMALE SUBJECTIVITIES: ANOWA’S BORDERLANDS
BORDERLANDS AND MARGINALITY
WHAT IS A WOMAN? WHAT IS A MAN? SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY
WITCHERY AND MADNESS AND ANOWA’S DESERTION OF SELF-EMPOWERMENT
WOMAN AS DARK CONTINENT
4 FROM “POST-COLONIALITY” TO UPRISING TEXTUALITIES: BLACK WOMEN WRITING THE CRITIQUE OF EMPIRE
ON POSTING AND POSTPONING: POST-COLONIALITY OR THE RE-MALE-ING OF CURRENT DISCOURSES
GAYATRI SPIVAK AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZING OF POST-COLONIALITY
BLACK WOMEN WRITING THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CRITIQUE
5 WRITING HOME: GENDER, HERITAGE AND IDENTITY IN AFRO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE US
6 MOBILITY, EMBODIMENT AND RESISTANCE: BLACK WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE US
7 OTHER TONGUES: GENDER, LANGUAGE, SEXUALITY AND THE POLITICS OF LOCATION
DEMYTHOLOGIZING THE POWER OF THE TONGUE
ANTI-CLOSURE PARTING