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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject
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Kevin Quashie (Author)
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In Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, 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 work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and many others, inform debates over the concept of identity. Quashie argues that these authors and artists replace the notion of a stable, singular identity with the concept of the self developing in a process both communal and perpetually fluid, a relationship that functions in much the same way that an adult woman negotiates with her girlfriend(s). He suggests that memory itself is corporeal, a literal body that is crucial to the process of becoming. Quashie also explores the problem language poses for the black woman artist and her commitment to a mastery that neither colonizes nor excludes.
The analysis throughout interacts with schools of thought such as psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and post-colonialism, but ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic, one that ultimately aims to center black women and their philosophies. 4 CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
KEVIN EVEROD QUASHIE is an assistant professor of Afro-American studies at Smith College. He is the co-editor of New Bones: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Writers in America.
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- Contributor: Kevin Quashie
- Imprint: Rutgers University Press
- ISBN13: 9780813533674
- Number of Pages: 246
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x18mm
- Packaged Weight: 397
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Release Date: 2003-12-24
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: KEVIN EVEROD QUASHIE is an assistant professor of Afro-American studies at Smith College. He is the co-editor of New Bones: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Writers in America.
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