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Ensemble de textes de la poétesse et militante féministe noire américaine (1934-1992) où elle exprime sa pensée sur les injustices civiles et sociales, les droits civiques, le féminisme, l'identité féminine noire. Un souvenir revient dans les écrits d'Audre Lorde. C'est l'hiver à New York. Audre est dans le métro avec sa mère. Emmitouflée, elle est assise à côté d'une dame en manteau de fourrure. Elle regarde la dame, blanche, qui d'une main rageuse retire le pan de manteau qui effleure l'enfant. Une enfant Noire qui ne comprend pas et cherche désespérément un cafard, une poussière, bref une saleté justifiant ce geste. Quelque chose pour ne pas réaliser que la saleté... c'est elle. Ensuite, le regard rageur de la dame blanche qui tue l'enfant Noire de cinq ans parce qu'elle ne peut pas le nommer : le regard du racisme. Un souvenir vrillé en elle, plus qu'une douleur, une souffrance indélébile qui permet à la poète adulte d'affirmer qu'au fond, en Amérique, on ne veut pas que les Noir-e-s vivent. Audre a vécu, survécu, pour nous dire son « amérique », ses passions, ses colères, dans une série d'écrits lumineux.
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This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities―as well as the transformative possibilities―between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.
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Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as: * re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings * tourist ideologies and playful world travelling * gender, heritage and identity * African women's writing and resistance to domination * marginality, effacement and decentering * gender, language and the politics of location Carole Boyce-Davies is at the forefront of attempts to broaden the discourse surrounding the representation of and by black women and women of colour. Black Women Writing and Identity represents an extraordinary achievement in this field, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels.
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Pour bell hooks, la meilleure critique culturelle ne voit pas la nécessité de séparer la politique du plaisir de lire. Yearning rassemble certains des classiques et des premiers morceaux de critique culturelle de hooks des années 80. Abordant des sujets tels que la pédagogie, le postmodernisme et la politique, hooks examine une variété d'artefacts culturels, du film Do the Right Thing de Spike Lee et du film Wings of Desire de Wim Wenders aux écrits de Zora Neale Hurston et Toni Morrison. Le résultat est une collection poignante d'essais qui, comme tout le travail de hooks, s'intéresse avant tout à la transformation des structures oppressives de domination.
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A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America. Black women’s writing has finally emerged as one of the most dynamic fields of American literature. Here, leading literary critics—both male and female, black and white—look at fiction, nonfiction, poetry, slave narratives, and autobiographies in a totally new way. In essence, they reconstruct a literary history that documents black women as artists, intellectuals, symbol makers, teachers, and survivors. Important writers whose work and lives are explored include Toni Morrison, Gloria Gaynor, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker, and the fascinating list of essays range from Nellie Y. McKay’s “The Souls of Black Women Folk in the Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois” to Jewelle L Gomez’s very personal tribute to Lorraine Hansberry as a dramatist and crusader for social justice. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the editor of this anthology and a noted authority on African-American literature, has provided a thought-provoking introduction that celebrates the experience of “reading black, reading feminist.” A penetrating look at women’s writing from a unique perspective, this superb collection brings to light the rich heritage of literary creativity among African-American women.