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This article explores the making of Black women's radical subjectivity in Black women's writings. Black women's radical subjectivity shatters the boundaries of geopolitical spaces traditionally defined through citizenship while creating alternative social imaginaries that represent a space where home and belongingness may be attained and self-determination realized. It is from the examination of Black women's textualities that one can detect an upheaval of nation-state racial formations that subverts the policing power of the state to force and essentialize racial identities. In this article, the authors trace the process of subverting forced identities, violent acts, and the narrativity of race. The authors analyze the lives, the movements, and the actions of the Black female protagonists from three geopolitical contexts as portrayed in the following novels: African American author Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Caribbean author Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven, and South African author Lauretta Ngcobo's And They Didn't Die.

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Subverting Forced Identities,Violent Acts,and the Narrativity of Race

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