Black Women, Identity, and Cultural TheoryIn Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the girlfriend as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ata Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and many others, inform debates over the concept of identity. Quashie argues that these authors and artists replace the notion