Insurgent Attitude: The Shifting Ground of the Afrospora Feminine.
This essay situates the notion of "attitude" or "plenty plenty-ness" associated with excessive Black femininity in African diaspora US and Caribbean spaces, within the contexts suggested by Sylvia Wynter's "demonic ground," Hortense Spillers' "insurgent ground," as well as Denise Ferreira da Silva's...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 23 - 45 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2024
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