Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women's Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the
1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized
text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black
subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of
this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through
important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to
the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.