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Author:

Henderson, Carol E., 1964-

Title:

Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature / Carol E. Henderson.

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xiii, 184 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism--History and criticism
Wounds and injuries in literature.
African Americans in literature
Body, Human, in literature.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-180) and index.

Contents:

The response: -- Awakenings: a personal odyssey. The call: -- Imag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse -- Whip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition -- The response: -- Bodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Dis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- "Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street -- Fingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited -- Awakenings: a personal odyssey.

ISBN:

9780826214218 (alk. paper)
0826214215 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50204301

LCCN:

2002073957

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)