{"product_id":"searching-for-sycorax-black-womens-hauntings-of-contemporary-horror-hardback-9780813584621","title":"Searching for Sycorax; Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror (Hardback) 9780813584621","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSearching for Sycorax\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKinitra D. Brooks (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813584621\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages, 10\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSearching for Sycorax\u003c\/i\u003e is unlike anything I have ever read. Brooks’ excavation of Black women’s presence in horror is a ground-breaking, game changing must read for scholars and aficionados alike.\" \u003c\/div\u003e - Susana M. Morris (author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature) \u003cdiv\u003e\"As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found \u003ci\u003eSearching for Sycorax'\u003c\/i\u003es interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant (coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions) \u003cdiv\u003eAuthor Kinitra D. Brooks was featured in an article in \u003ci\u003eThe Cut \u003c\/i\u003eon a similar issue of black women in popular culture, entitled \"\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2017\/11\/beyonce-is-instagrams-leonardo-da-vinci.html\"'\u003eBeyoncÉ Is the Leonardo da Vinci of Instagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Emilia Petrarca (TheCut.com) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A deep exploration how Black women create horror that spawns a new knowledge of the genre that worries the intersections of race and gender to gain a better understanding, and continue the ongoing conversation as well as activity in the Black Women's Horror Renaissance.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Graveyard Shift Sisters) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/wavenewspapers.com\/book-corner-author-highlights-influence-black-women-horror\/\"'\u003e\"BOOK CORNER: Author highlights influence of black women in horror\"\u003c\/a\u003e by Marissa Wells\u003c\/div\u003e (LA Wave) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Discusses black women of the Americas and Britain as creators and characters in the horror genre.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/www.utsa.edu\/today\/2018\/01\/story\/BlackandBrownFutures.html\"'\u003e\"Students tap into popular culture to explore theories of race and gender\" \u003ci\u003eSearching for Sycorax\u003c\/i\u003e mention\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (UTSA Today) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/time.com\/5559750\/us-movie-rabbits-meaning-bunnies-in-horror-films\/\"'\u003e\"Why Are There So Many Bunnies in Scary Movies?\" by Cady Lang - interview with  Dr. Kinitra D. Brooks\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Time) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/movies-tv\/a26988747\/us-movie-review-horror-tropes\/\"'\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUs\u003c\/i\u003e Makes Us Look in the Mirror-What If We Don't Like What We See?,\" by Kinitra D. Brooks\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Elle) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/sfbayview.com\/2019\/10\/stokerssowhite-2016-2018-the-fall-of-tokenism-at-the-hwa\/\"'\u003eMention in \"#StokersSoWhite: 2016-2018, the fall of tokenism at the HWA\"\u003cbr\u003e https:\/\/sfbayview.com\/2019\/10\/stokerssowhite-2016-2018-the-fall-of-tokenism-at-the-hwa\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (San Francisco Bay View)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSearching for Sycorax\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the African diaspora, from Haiti, Trinidad, and Jamaica, to England and the United States, looking at new and canonized horror texts by Nalo Hopkinson, NK Jemisin, Gloria Naylor, and Chesya Burke. These Black women fiction writers take advantage of horror’s ability to highlight U.S. white dominant cultural anxieties by using Africana folklore to revise horror’s semiotics within their own imaginary. Ultimately, Brooks compares the legacy of Shakespeare’s Sycorax (of \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e) to Black women writers themselves, who, deprived of mainstream access to self-articulation, nevertheless influence the trajectory of horror criticism by forcing the genre to de-centralize whiteness and maleness.  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Preface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Searching for Sycorax:\u003cbr\u003e Black Women and Horror 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women’\u003cbr\u003es Creative Horror 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Sycorax’\u003cbr\u003es Power of Revision:\u003cbr\u003e Reconstructing Black Women’\u003cbr\u003es Counternarratives 127\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Creative Work Summary 133\u003cbr\u003e Notes 167\u003cbr\u003e Index 195 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563702939928,"sku":"9780813584621","price":122.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/searching-for-sycorax-black-womens-hauntings-of-contemporary-horror-hardback-9780813584621","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}