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Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity

Critical Appropriations: African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity

Drake, Simone C.

Hardcover

Series: Southern Literary Studies

Literary CriticismAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0807153877
ISBN13: 9780807153871
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: May 12 2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.69
Language: English

From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding of a chronically marginalized demographic. In Critical Appropriations, Drake contends that these fluid and hetero-geneous characterizations of black females arise from multiple creative outlets -- literature, film, and music videos -- and reflect African Ameri-can women's evolving concept of home, community, gender, and family.

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