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Searching for Sycorax 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 The Tempest) 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.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Searching for Sycorax:
Black Women and Horror 1
1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts 16
2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability 41
3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity 56
4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women's Creative Horror 95
Conclusion. Sycorax's Power of Revision:
Reconstructing Black Women's Counternarratives 127
Appendix: Creative Work Summary 133
Notes 167
Index 195
