The Evidence of Things Unseen: Experimental Form as Black Feminist Praxis

Authors

Shelly J. Eversley, CUNY Bernard M Baruch CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2018

Abstract

This essay reads Carlene Hatcher Polite's little-known experimental novel Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play and situates it within Black Aesthetics and black feminist theory to argue that experimental forms is crucial to black feminist praxis. The form also exposes critical violences that not only diminish and obscure black feminist writing, but also black women writers.