Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject, 1st Edition

Carole Boyce-Davies

9780415100878

Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as:
* re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings
* tourist ideologies and playful world travelling
* gender, heritage and identity
* African women’s writing and resistance to domination
* marginality, effacement and decentering
* gender, language and the politics of location