BLACK FEMINISM: ARTICULATING POSITIONS

Abstract

Black Feminist Poetics has been an important issue of concern for scholars for quite some time now. There have been productive arguments in the arena, also keen insights concerning the phenomenon of blackness. Cultural imperatives and diverse strategies have been on view. The aim of the said theoretics has been to fill black citational absences, also to strive to gain recognition in the academe for black feminist theorizing. The effort is to overcome institutional reluctance and academic diffidence in this regard. There have been barriers of colour, race, class and gender as also myopic view regarding black feminism, when their Western counterparts articulate positions of ‘postfeminism’. The intention is to present alternate perspectives concerning affect and sexuality immanent in Black Feminist Theoretics as also the concept of the queer.