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Skin Acts : Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer /

In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers-Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley-to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin. She situates each figure within his cult...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stephens, Michelle Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • chapter one Seeing Faces, Hearing Signs
  • chapter two Bodylines, Borderlines, Color Lines
  • chapter three The Problem of Color
  • chapter four In the Flesh, Living Sound
  • CONCLUSION. Defacing Race, Rethinking the Skin
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX