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Pinto, Samantha Nicole.

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"Postcolonial Blues": Gender and the mobile literacies of the Black Atlantic.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Postcolonial Blues": Gender and the mobile literacies of the Black Atlantic./
Author:	Pinto, Samantha Nicole.
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jenny Sharpe.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-03A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3304737
ISBN:	9780549506584

"Postcolonial Blues": Gender and the mobile literacies of the Black Atlantic.
Pinto, Samantha Nicole.

"Postcolonial Blues": Gender and the mobile literacies of the Black Atlantic. - 228 p.

Adviser: Jenny Sharpe.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2007.

Emerging from a range of critical work on transnationalism in the past fifteen years, diaspora studies has exploded into the disparate fields of African-American, postcolonial, and gender studies. Recent work frequently struggles with the established boundaries of disciplinary inquiry in an attempt to locate "diaspora" as a productive category of analysis. My project moves beyond the representation of national and geographic difference by integrating those distinctions into its comprehensive understanding of field formation. "Postcolonial Blues" is the first book-length work on black women writers from the diaspora to argue for both the material and conceptual difference that transnational theory makes to gender, race and sexuality studies. Drawing from unconventional texts, my project traces imaginative routes across unexpected geographies and histories, relocating formal innovation from the margins to the center of the black diaspora. "Postcolonial Blues" explores the potential critical longings and circulations that characterize women's writing from the black Atlantic. Located at the boundaries of African American, postcolonial, and gender studies, my dissertation argues not just for the centrality of black women as subjects of disciplinary inquiry, but for a methodology that can account for difference across the complex national, cultural and textual terrains of the black diaspora. The first chapter analyzes poet Jackie Kay's renegotiation of Bessie Smith as a black intellectual icon, arguing that the performative work of black women shifts the base of diaspora studies. From foundations and futures of diaspora, the second chapter moves to consider Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographic memoir Tell My Horse alongside of Erna Brodber's Louisiana in an effort to recast black Atlantic modernity as the possession of gendered fictions. The third chapter considers the innovative poetics of public cultural memory and historical reference that authors Elizabeth Alexander and Deborah Richards employ in their dramatic re-imaginings of The Venus Hottentot and Dorothy Dandridge. Finally, the fourth chapter argues for a revised methodology for reading not just black Atlantic women's writing, but interdisciplinary practice itself using the mobile literacies of Harryette Mullen's Muse and Drudge .

ISBN: 9780549506584Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

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