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Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature /

"Scarring and the act of scarring are recurrent images in African American literature. In Scarring the Black Body, Carol E. Henderson analyzes the cultural and historical implications of scarring in a number of African American texts that feature the trope of the scar, including works by Sherle...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Henderson, Carol E., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Bearing witness: reading the narrative of the African American body
  • The call:
  • Imag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse
  • Whip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition
  • The response:
  • Bodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
  • Dis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • "Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street
  • Fingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited
  • Awakenings: a personal odyssey.