When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780367198343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str.

Janell Hobson

Opis

When God Lost Her Tongue seeks to explore historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how Black women’s transatlantic histories are re-imagined and politicized in our contemporary moment.

Spis treści

Introduction; Prelude; Chapter 1 A Meditation on Black Feminist Divinity; Chapter 2 Reframing Portraits of Black Womanhood; Chapter 3 Revolving Doors of No Return; Chapter 4 Cultural Currency and the Value of Harriet Tubman; Chapter 5 To Play the Queen, To Embody the Goddess; Postlude; Epilogue

O autorze

Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.