Black feminist cultural criticism
By: edited by Jacqueline Bobo.
Contributors: Bobo, Jacqueline.
Series: Keyworks in cultural studies ;; 3
Publisher: Blackwell; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: African American arts; Feminism and the arts -- United States; African American women artists; Feminist criticism -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Authors; title: Preface: Bearing Witness; title: Jacqueline Bobo; title: Acknowledgments; title: Part I Foundations; title: Overview; title: 1 Toward a Black Feminist Criticism; title: Barbara Smith; title: 2 New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism; title: Deborah E. McDowell; title: 3 But What Do We Think We're Doing Anyway:; title: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or; title: My Version of a Little Bit of History; title: Barbara Christian; title: Supplementary Readings and Media Resources; title: Part II The Moving Image "; title: Overview; title: 4 Some Reflections on the Negro Actress:; title: The Tattered Queens; title: Ruby Dee; title: 5 Daughters of the Dust; title: Jacqueline Bobo; title: 6 Below the Line: (Re)Calibrating the Filmic Gaze; title: C. A. Griffith; title: 7 In My Mother's House: Black Feminist Aesthetics,; title: Television, and A Raisin in the Sun; title: Sheri Parks; title: Supplementary Readings and Media Resources; title: Part III Art; title: Overview; title: 8 African-American Women Artists:; title: An Historical Perspective; title: Arna Alexander Bontemps and Jacqueline Fonvielle-; title: Bontemps; title: 9 In Search of a Discourse and Critique/s; title: that Center the Art of Black Women Artists; title: Freida High W Tesfagiorgis; title: 10 In Their Own Image; title: Kellie Jones; title: 11 The Freedom to Say what She Pleases:; title: A Conversation with Faith Ringgold; title: Melody Graulich and Mara Witzling; title: Supplementary Readings and Media Resources; title: Part IV Music and Spoken Word /; title: Overview; title: 12 Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy; title: of Struggle; title: Angela Y Davis; title: 13 Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile; title: Tricia Rose; title: 14 Divas Declare a Spoken-Word Revolution; title: Evelyn McDonnell; title: 15 "A Laying on of Hands": Transcending the City; title: in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have; title: considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; title: Carolyn Mitchell; title: Supplementary Readings and Media Resources; title: Part V Material Culture; title: Overview; title: 16 The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power; title: Audre Lorde; title: 17 African American Quilts: Paradigms of Black; title: Diversity; title: Cuesta Benberry; title: 18 Harriet Powers: Portrait of an African-American; title: Quilter; title: Gladys-Marie Fry; title: 19 Empathy, Energy, and Eating: Politics and Power in; title: The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook; title: Sally Bishop Shigley; title: Supplementary Readings and Media Resources; title: Media Resources Directory of Distributors; title: Bibliography; title: index.