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Title:

Imagining the Black female body : reconciling image in print and visual culture / edited by Carol E. Henderson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xiii, 218 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

African American women in popular culture.
African American women--Social conditions.
Self-perception in women--United States.
Women--United States--Identity.

Other Authors:

Henderson, Carol E., 1964-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Racing sexing, sexing race : the invention of the Black feminine body / Kaila Adia Story -- Disembodiments : Ellen Gallagher's watery metamorphoses / Ana Nunes -- Stigmata : embodying the scars of slavery / Venetria K. Patton -- Pull up to the bumper : fashion and queerness in Grace Jones' one man show / Maria J. Guzman -- Images that sell : the Black female body imag(in)ed in 1960s and 1970s magazine ads / Michelle L. Filling -- Women, for women : Black women, all grown up / Debra A. Powell-Wright -- The lower stratum of history : the grotesque comic stereotypes of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker / Julie Burrell -- Navel-erasing : androgyny and self-making in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother / Stacie Selmon McCormick -- If rigor is our dream : the re-membering of violence by Black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance / Zetta Elliott.

ISBN:

0230107052 (alk. paper)
9780230107052 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)607977731

LCCN:

2010017572

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)