Title Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature / Carol E. Henderson

Published Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages) Contents Introduction: Bearing witness: reading the narrative of the African American body -- The call: -- Imag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse -- Whip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition -- The response: -- Bodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Dis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- "Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street -- Fingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited -- Awakenings: a personal odyssey Summary "Scarring and the act of scarring are recurrent images in African American literature. In Scarring the Black Body, Carol E. Henderson analyzes the cultural and historical implications of scarring in a number of African American texts that feature the trope of the scar, including works by Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) 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 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans -- Intellectual life. Wounds and injuries in literature. African Americans in literature. Human body in literature. Race in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature African Americans -- Intellectual life American literature -- African American authors Human body in literature Race in literature Wounds and injuries in literature Schrijvers. Littekens. Rassenongelijkheid. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0826262899 9780826262899 9780826214218 0826214215

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