Imagining the Black female body
Subtitle: reconciling image in print and visual culture
By: edited by Carol E. Henderson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230107052
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sexing race : the invention of the Black feminine body / Kaila Adia Story; title: Disembodiments : Ellen Gallagher's watery metamorphoses / Ana Nunes; title: Stigmata : embodying the scars of slavery / Venetria K. Patton; title: Pull up to the bumper : fashion and queerness in Grace Jones' one man show / Maria J. Guzman; title: Images that sell : the Black female body imag(in)ed in 1960s and 1970s magazine ads / Michelle L. Filling; title: Women, for women : Black women, all grown up / Debra A. Powell-Wright; title: The lower stratum of history : the grotesque comic stereotypes of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker / Julie Burrell; title: Navel-erasing : androgyny and self-making in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother / Stacie Selmon McCormick; title: If rigor is our dream : the re-membering of violence by Black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance / Zetta Elliott.