Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, 1 INTRODUCTION: MIGRATORY SUBJECTIVITIES Black women’s writing and the re-negotiation of identities, 2 NEGOTIATING THEORIES OR “GOING A PIECE OF THE WAY WITH THEM”, 3 DECONSTRUCTING AFRICAN FEMALE SUBJECTIVITIES Anowa’s borderlands, 4 FROM “POST-COLONIALITY” TO UPRISING TEXTUALITIES Black women writing the critique of Empire, 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, Notes, Bibliography

About the Author

Carole Boyce-Davies

Reviews

"This book will make a major contribution to a range of related fields: Black feminism, feminist studies, African literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, literary theory, cultural studies...Davies here fulfils the important task of adding a much-needed particularity to the category of Black women's writing.."
-Valerie Smith, University of California, Los Angeles