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Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Represent
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- Book Title
- Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representation by African
- Publication Date
- 2000-12-01
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780813528397
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Recovering the Black Female Body : Self-Representation by African American Women
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 21 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, and representation, little has been written about black women's depictions of their own bodies. Both past and present-day American cultural discourse has attempted either to hypereroticize the black female body or make it a site of impropriety and crime. The essays in this volume focus on how African American women, from the nineteenth century to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of others. Contributors attempt to "recover" the black female body in two ways: they explore how dominant historical images have mediated black female identity, and they analyze how black women have resisted often demeaning popular cultural perceptions in favor of more diverse, subtle presentations of self. The pieces in this book--all of them published here for the first time--address a wide range of topics, from antebellum American poetry to nineteenth-century African American actors, and twentieth-century pulp fiction. Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others. Contributors are Margaret Bass, Dorri Rabung Beam, Michael Bennett, Jacqueline E. Brady, Daphne A. Brooks, Vanessa D. Dickerson, Meredith Goldsmith, Yvette Louis, Ajuan Maria Mance, Noliwe Rooks, Mark Winokur, and Doris Witt. This book also contains a foreword by Carla L. Peterson and an afterword by Deborah E. McDowell.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813528399
ISBN-13
9780813528397
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1702837
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Recovering the Black Female Body : Self-Representation by African American Women
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E185
Reviews
Although feminists have studied the social construction of the female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering collection of original writings by academics and artists on æhow African-American women, from slavery to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of the dominant culture.Æ., By examining African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a body of scholarly work but also attempts to ærecoverÆ a more accurate representation of the African American female body., A collection of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to æamplifyÆ African American women writersÆ attempts to ætake back their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of impropriety and crime.Æ., A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2000
Topic
American / African American, American / General, Personality, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Lccn
00-027657
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Literary Criticism, Social Science
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