Searching for Sycorax

Brooks, Kinitra D.

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“…I define speculative f(r)ictions as the incongruities between an author's imagined world and audiences whose humanity is contested therein. While horror features supernatural phenomena ripe with possibility, the genre's history of racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes also comprises frictional spaces where the identities of minoritized subjects are often relegated to the monsters and margins of texts (Brooks, 2018;Coleman, 2011). Such tropes include: Black characters are the first to die, women are slaughtered because of their gender, queer desires corrupt, and Indigenous lands are cursed.…”

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Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity

Corbitt

2023

Journal of Literacy Research

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This case study examined how a 14-year-old youth and eighth-grade student named Kendra (pseudonym) mobilized restorying to (re)center her experiences in horror fiction. I asked how she conceptualized horror and monstrosity in a 6-week English language arts unit, and how she (re)centered her life experiences within horror fiction through restorying “The Price” by Neil Gaiman. Focusing on two forms of her restorying practices—counter-storytelling and transmedia storytelling—I analyzed how she composed an original, personalized horror story. The findings illustrated how the composition reflected her conceptualizations of monstrosity and subverted problematic horror tropes. I also discussed how her horror story functioned as sociopolitical critique, a (re)interpretation of source material, and a method of composing for audiences.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity

Corbitt

2023

Journal of Literacy Research

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Fantasy

James¹

2022

A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien

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Conjuring the Ghost: A Call and Response to Haints

brown

2021

Hypatia

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This article discusses haunting as a condition and strategy for Black women in their lived and literary experiences. I use the haint as a key figure for understanding Black women's liminal state as both the ones haunted and the thing haunting and focus on one of the haint's primary manifestations: the hag. Throughout the essay I unpack maligning myths of this specter and center the works of Phillis Wheatley and Lucille Clifton to refigure the hag as a spiritual and ancestral presence.

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Searching for Sycorax

Cited by 10 publications

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Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity

Speculative F(r)ictions: A Youth Restorying Horror and Monstrosity

Fantasy

Conjuring the Ghost: A Call and Response to Haints

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