Recovering the Black Female Body : Self-representations by African American women / edited by Michael Bennett, Vanessa D. Dickerson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bennett, Michael, 1962- editor.

Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955- editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women.

Human body in literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature--African American authors.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 331 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Contents:

Part I. Covering/Uncovering. 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

Part II. Discovering. 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 Parks'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

Part III. Recovering. 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.

Notes:

"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."--Cover.

"Cover design: Trudi Gershenov."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0813528380

0813528399

OCLC:

43648565