New Media in Black Women's Autobiography: Intrepid Embodiment and Narrative Innovation

by Tracy Curtis

With the rapid expansion of the field of autobiography due to the emergence of new digital media, black American women have excelled at expanding the genre's boundaries as they address disparaging depictions of themselves. Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiographies by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. New Media in Black Women's Autobiography...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137428856
• ISBN13: 9781137428851
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"