Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Simmons, Merinda, 1981- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > African American women > History and criticism. West Indian literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism. African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. Slave trade in literature. Collective memory in literature. Culture in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: when literature and identity "get real"
Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince
"Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God
Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day
"Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem
Conclusion.