Searching for Sycorax : Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror -- 1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts -- 2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability -- 3. Bl...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror -- 1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts -- 2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability -- 3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity -- 4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women’s Creative Horror -- Conclusion. Sycorax’s Power of Revision: Reconstructing Black Women’s Counternarratives -- Appendix: Creative Work Summary -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author Ausführliche Beschreibung