The suffering will not be televised
Subtitle: African American women and sentimental political storytelling
By: Rebecca Wanzo.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438428833; 9781438428826
Subjects: African American women -- Social conditions; African American women -- Political activity; Women in mass media; Mass media and women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Saving Shoshana : an introduction to sentimental political storytelling; title: Incidents in the life of a (volunteer) slave girl : the specter of slavery and escapes from history; title: The reading cure : Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, and sentimental identification; title: Salvation in his arms : rape, race, and intimacy's salve; title: In the shadow of Anarcha : race, pain, and medical storytelling; title: The abduction will not be televised : suffering hierarchies, simple stories, and the logic of child protection in the United States; title: Coda : lifetime, anyone? : a meditation on victims.