Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.