The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship - Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture

In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship, the author examines how three popular black female authors (Roxane Gay, Beyoncé and Issa Rae) simultaneously complement and complicate hegemonic notions of race, identity and gender in contemporary American culture.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Triple Consciousness
Chapter Two: Popular Literary Culture: Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist and Difficult Women
Chapter Three: Popular Music Culture: Beyoncé's Lemonade
Chapter Four: Popular Television Culture: Issa Rae's Insecure
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Nahum N. Welang

Product details

• Authors: Nahum N. Welang
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2022
• EAN: 9781666907148
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-0714-8
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 237 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black