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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Language: | Inglés |
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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.