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03404aam a2200457 i 4500 001 6BE90A4255EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150908010358 008 141001s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014035567 020 $a 1137428856 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137428851 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)891125885 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCF $d CDX $d STF $d DRB $d PUL $d IUL $d COO $d YUS $d ZCU $d MNE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS366.A35 $b C88 2015 082 00 $a 810.9/928708996073 $2 23 084 $a LIT007000 $a LIT000000 $a LIT004040 $a LIT007000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Curtis, Tracy, $e author. 245 10 $a New media in Black women's autobiography : $b intrepid embodiment and narrative innovation / $c Tracy Curtis. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a ix, 226 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a " Using 1980 as a starting point, Curtis explores how black women's insistence on writing embodiment into their narratives addresses and supplants images deployed against them. She argues that although many stereotypes rely on the notion that black female identity comes only from and through the body, emphasis on corporeality serves these women well. Joining somatic experience with complicated inner lives compels at least understanding and perhaps empathy. Privileging their experiences as the only road to truths about their lives succeeds across formats. Deployed by black women, new media facilitate well-executed, defiant, creative autobiographical gestures that should be considered among the most effective and innovative in their respective milieus"-- Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index. 505 0 $a 1. Whose Tools? Audre Lorde's narrative mastery in The cancer journals and Zami: a mew spelling of my name -- 2. Naming all these women: Jill Nelson's portrayals in Volunteer slavery and Straight, no chaser -- 3. Born into this body: Black women's use of Buddhism in autobiographical narratives -- 4. Moving on from Control: Janet Jackson's lot improves as she loses the uniform -- 5. Down a dangerous cyber street: Black women's online writing -- 6. At arm's length: the selfie, public personae, and Instagram use in young Black women and adolescents. 650 0 $a American prose literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American prose literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African American women authors $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a African American women authors $x Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799478 650 7 $a American prose literature $x African American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807423 650 7 $a American prose literature $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807437 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200603012955.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111031405.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6BE90A4255EF11E58B7A61D1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search