Mama's gun : Black maternal figures and the politics of transgression /

"In Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression, Marlo D. David identifies five bold, new archetypes of black motherhood for the post-civil rights generation in order to imagine new ways of thinking about pervasive maternal stereotypes of black women. Rather than a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: David, Marlo D., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
Colección:Black performance and cultural criticism.
Temas:
Sapphire, > 1950- > Push.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. > Getting mother's body.
Badu, Erykah > Criticism and interpretation.
Butler, Octavia E. > Dawn.
Perry, Tyler > Criticism and interpretation.
Badu, Erykah
Perry, Tyler
Push (Sapphire)
African American mothers in literature.
African American women in motion pictures.
African American women in popular culture.
Motherhood > Political aspects.
Motherhood > Social aspects.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
Transgression (Ethics) in literature > Political aspects.
Noires américaines au cinéma.
Noires américaines dans la culture populaire.
Maternité > Aspect politique.
Maternité > Aspect social.
Stéréotypes dans la littérature.
Stéréotypes dans les médias.
Transgression dans la littérature > Aspect politique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
African American mothers in literature
African American women in motion pictures
African American women in popular culture
Motherhood > Political aspects
Motherhood > Social aspects
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film criticism
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Film criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Critiques cinématographiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Mothering while Black
  • Introduction: Bad mothers and baaaad muthas : Black maternal figures in post-civil-rights America
  • "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
  • Conclusion: Transgressive Black maternal figures and the future of Black feminist cultural studies.

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