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

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 331 pages) : illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African American women. Human body in literature. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. African American women American literature American literature -- African American authors Human body in literature Selbstdarstellung Frau Motiv Körper Motiv Frauenliteratur Corps humain -- Dans la littérature. Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle. Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains. Femmes écrivains noires américaines. Schwärze USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Bennett, Michael, 1962- Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955- ISBN 0585387346 9780585387345

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