Scarring the Black body
Subtitle: race and representation in African American literature
By: Carol E. Henderson.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbia, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; Wounds and injuries in literature; African Americans in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Race in literature
Description: "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 Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-180) and index.