| Description |
xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric / Michael Bennett -- "The deeds done in my body": black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken / Daphne A. Brooks -- The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona / Dorri Rabung Beam -- Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith -- Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton / Ajuan Maria Mance -- Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world / Yvette Louis -- Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman / Doris Witt -- Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction / Vanessa D. Dickerson -- On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture / Margaret K. Bass -- Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman / Mark Winokur -- Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body / Jacqueline E. Brady -- Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield / Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins) -- Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals / Deborah E. McDowell. |
| Subject |
African American women.
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Human body in literature.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African American women -- Intellectual life.
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African American women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Bennett, Michael, 1962-
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Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955-
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| ISBN |
0813528380 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780813528380 cloth alkaline paper |
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0813528399 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780813528397 paperback alkaline paper |
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