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Black mothers and the national body politic : the narrative positioning of the black maternal body from the Civil War period through the present / Andrea Wolfe Powell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfe, Andrea Powell, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American mothers in literature.
- African American women in literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham [Maryland] : Lexington Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The subordination of embodied power : sentimental representations of the black maternal body in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl
- Recuperating the body : Embodiment and reintegration into the black community in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and Toni Morrison's Beloved
- The narrative power of the lack maternal body : resisting and exceeding visual economies of discipline in Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
- Mapping black motherhood onto the nation: Southern legacies and national realities in Lillian Smith's Strange fruit and Alice Randall's The wind done gone
- Coda : Michelle Obama in context.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781793631305
- 1793631301
- Publisher Number:
- 40030337293
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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