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Book Review: Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks. Rutgers UP, 2017
Ist Teil von
Journal of West Indian Literature, 2021, Vol.29 (2), p.144-155
Ort / Verlag
Kingston: Journal of West Indian Literature
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
According to Brook's comprehensive and percipient analysis, the erasure is multifaceted. Brooks lays out a more syncretic theoretical foundation, arguing that Black women intentionally blur the boundaries between science fiction and horror so as to create a fluid narrative grounded in traditional African religious practices and epistemes, thus reflecting a radical Black literary subjectivity. Probing the intersections of gynophobia and negrophobia, Brooks suggests that even as recent postmillennial horror films make an expanded place for Black-female horror characterization, they simultaneously assert that the mere presence of their raced embodiment is horrific enough. Since the Black female characters arrive into textual worlds already pathologized for possessing the survival skills necessary to negotiate racist, classist and patriarchal social environments, invariably the primary role of female survivor/avenger is then reserved for white women. In the final analysis, Brooks contends, Black-female horror writers exist squarely within the Black-feminist literary tradition and successfully negotiate new and fertile pathways towards its agenda of formulating a Black female ontology that can withstand the ravages of racial, sexual and class oppression.