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Author:
David, Marlo D., 1974- author.
Title:
Mama's gun : black maternal figures and the politics of transgression / Marlo D. David.
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xvi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
African American mothers in literature.
African American women in motion pictures.
Motherhood--Political aspects.
Motherhood--Social aspects.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.
Contents:
"I got self, pencil and notebook": literacy as maternal desire in Sapphire's PUSH -- The Blues Mama in Suzan-Lori Parks's neo-segregation novel Getting mother's body -- Toward a new Amerykah: the maternal "freakquencies" of Erykah Badu as mothership -- "To live and reproduce, not to die": surrogacy and maternal agency in Octavia Butler's Dawn -- Madea's Big happy family: Tyler Perry and the politics and performance of Big Mama drag -- Transgressive black maternal figures and the future of black feminist cultural studies.
Series:
Black performance and cultural criticism
ISBN:
0814213138
9780814213131
OCLC:
(OCoLC)951415575
LCCN:
2016021234
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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