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100 1 a| Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun.=| ^A1348301;

245 10 a| Searching for Sycoraxh| [electronic resource] :b| Black women's hauntings of contemporary horror /c| Kinitra D. Brooks.;

260 a| New Brunswick, New Jersey :b| Rutgers University Press,c| [2018];

300 a| xvi, 199 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

504 a| Includes index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: black women and horror -- The importance of neglected intersections: characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts -- Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability -- Black women writing fluid fiction: an open challenge to genre normativity -- Folkloric horror: a new way of reading black women's creative horror -- Conclusion Sycorax's power of revision: reconstructing black women's counter-narratives -- Appendix: creative work summary.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"--c| Provided by publisher.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

650 0 a| Horror in literature.=| ^A139984;

650 0 a| African American women authors.=| ^A153168;

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650 0 a| Feminist theory.=| ^A263982;

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Searching for Sycorax Black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / Kinitra D. Brooks.

Author/creator	Brooks, Kinitra Dechaun
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Description	xvi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Horror in literature. African American women authors. Women authors, Black--History and criticism. Feminist theory.

Contents	Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: black women and horror -- The importance of neglected intersections: characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts -- Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability -- Black women writing fluid fiction: an open challenge to genre normativity -- Folkloric horror: a new way of reading black women's creative horror -- Conclusion Sycorax's power of revision: reconstructing black women's counter-narratives -- Appendix: creative work summary.
Abstract	"Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017033671
ISBN	9780813584621 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780813584614 (softcover : alk. paper)

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