Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement
Subtitle
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.
Bio
Lynette Myles is a lecturer in the Department of English at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
Myles' 'Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement' is an ambitious, in-depth, detailed, and dynamic analysis of how and when black female literary figures move from pained and/or marginal existences to places of power and self transformation . . . Myles both informs and expands our understanding of black female movement as a self-defining, and liberating act that is simultaneously transgressive and transformative.
Sapphire author of "Push" and "Black Wings & Blind Angels"
Drawing on criticism and theories from Black and Latina feminists and postcolonial studies, 'Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement' offers a refreshing exploration of African American women's literature. . . Detailing the stages of transient movement in the transformation to racial and gender consciousness, Myles explicates her concept for readers with cogent textual evidence from a range of Black women's fiction.
DoVeanna S. Fulton director, African American Studies and chair, women's studies, University of Arizona
