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Invisibility blues : from pop to theory / Michele Wallace.
LIBRA E185.86 .W35 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Michele.
- Series:
- Haymarket series
- The Haymarket series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women.
- African American artists.
- Wallace, Michele.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- History.
- African American arts.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 267 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Verso, 1990.
- Summary:
- In the shifting and conflicting currents of recent cultural criticism and theory, no space is more ambiguous or difficult to define that that of black feminism. In ths new book, Michele Wallace posses the questions that an emergent black feminist theory must answer.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Negative/Positive Images
- Part I. Black Feminism/Autobiography. Memories of a 60s girlhood: The Harlem I love; Anger in isolation: A Black Feminist's search for sisterhood; Baby faith; For the women's house; A women's prison and the movement; The Dah Principle: to be continued; Homelessness is where the heart is
- Part II. Pop. Blues for Mr. Spielberg; Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and 'The Ecstasy of Communication'; Invisibility blues; Spike Lee and Black Women; Doing the Right Thing; Entertainment tomorrow; Mississippi Burning and Bird
- Part III. Culture/History. For Colored Girls, the Rainbow is not Enough; Slaves of history; Ishmael Reed's female troubles; Wilma Mankiller: profile; Twenty years later; Who owns Zora Neale Hurston? Critics carve up the legend; Reading 1968: The great American whitewash; Tim Rollins and KOS: The Amerika series
- Part IV. Theory. Variations on negation and the heresy of Black Feminist Creativity; Negative images: towards a Black Feminist Cultural Criticism.
- Notes:
- Cover "illustration: Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold ..."
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] pages at end.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0860913015
- 0860915190
- OCLC:
- 21903152
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