Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement : Beyond Borders

Female Subjectivity in African American Women s Narratives of Enslavement is a new and innovative study of black women s transformation, which focuses on black women writers who support the notion of separate location for a changed female consciousness. This book offers the concept of the "Transient Woman" as a new paradigm and feminist vision for analyzing female subjectivity and consciousness. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Places, Borders, and Margins—Locating a Black Feminist Model of Interpretation....Pages 1-10 Black Female Movement: Conceptualizing Places of Consciousness for Black Female Subjectivity....Pages 11-50 Location, Female Autonomy, and Identity in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces....Pages 51-81 At the Crossroads of Black Female Autonomy, or Digression as Resistance in Quicksand and The Street....Pages 83-115 Praisesong for the Widow: Crossing Location and Space toward Female Consciousness and Wholeness....Pages 117-146 Space and Time: The Interdependency of History, Identity, and Survival in Octavia Butler’s Kindred....Pages 147-163 Conclusion....Pages 165-171 Back Matter....Pages 173-195 In a clear and accesible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness