Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : defining Jane Crow -- At the point of no return : a native son and his Gorgon muse -- Gender conscriptions, class conciliations and the bourgeois blues aesthetic -- "Nobody could tell who this be" : black and white doubles and the challenge to pedestal femininity -- "I'll see how crazy they think I am" : pulping sexual violence, racial melancholia, and healthy citizenship -- Rereading the construction of womanhood in popular narratives of domesticity -- The audacity of hope : an American daughter and her dream for cultural hybridity -- Epilogue : refashioning Jane Crow and the black female body.
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