Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race: Black Female Trickster's Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature

by Yomna Saber

Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature. But what if the trickster is an African American female? This book examines this figure as delineated in the writings of: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison. The black female trickster subverts hegemonic discourse and emerges as a victim who refuses victimization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034325762
• ISBN13: 9783034325769
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"