Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

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Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonizedtext to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate blacksubjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence ofthis new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement throughimportant milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine tothe writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.