Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject

by Kevin Everod Quashie and Kevin Quashie

In Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girlfriend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and many others, inform debates over the concept of identity. Quashie argues that these authors and artists replace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813533678
• ISBN13: 9780813533674
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"