Recovering the Black female body : self-representations by African American women / edited by Michael Bennett and Vanessa D. Dickerson.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2001.
Description
xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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      Editor
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      Writer of afterword
      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.
      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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