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Recovering the Black female body : self-representations by African American women / edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2001.
Description
xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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E185.86 .R37 2001
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Subject(s)
African American women
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Human body in literature
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American literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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American literature
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African American authors
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History and criticism
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African American women
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Intellectual life
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African American women in literature
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Editor
Bennett, Michael, 1962-
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Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955-
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Photographer
Gaskins, Bill, 1953-
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Writer of afterword
McDowell, Deborah E., 1951-
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Bibliographic references
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.
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ISBN
0813528380 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780813528380 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0813528399 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780813528397 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
00027657
OCLC
43648565
International Article Number
9780813528397
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