Michael Bennett, Vanessa D. Dickerson, Daphne Brooks, Dorri Beam, Meredith Goldsmith

Recovering the Black Female Body

Self-Representation by African American Women
Herausgeber: Bennett, Michael; Dickerson, Vanessa D

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection theorize the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings from the 19th century through to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780813528397
• ISBN-10: 0813528399
• Artikelnr.: 22250957

Autorenporträt

About the Author Bennett is Assistant Professor of English at Long Island University. Vanessa D. Dickerson is a professor of English at DePauw University and the author of Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural. Michael Bennett, M.D., educated at both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, is a board-certified psychiatrist, Canadian, and Red Sox fan. He has a private practice which he's been running for almost thirty years. Michael lives with his wife in Boston. Daphne Brooks is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University, where she teaches courses on African-American literature and culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture. Dorri Beam is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. MEREDITH GOLDSMITH is Assistant Professor of English at Whitman College. She lives in Walla Walla, Washington. Winokur teaches film, popular culture, and American literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Deborah E. McDowell (Ph.D. Purdue), Co-Editor, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism. Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Founding editor of the Beacon Black Women Writers series; co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery of the Literary Imagination; author of "The Changing Same: Studies in Fiction by Black Women; Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; editor of Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun, Pauline Hopkins s Of One Blood, and numerous articles and essays.

Inhaltsangabe

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