America and the black body
Subtitle: identity politics in print and visual culture
By: edited by Carol E. Henderson.
Contributors: Henderson, Carol E., 1964-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780838641323
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Blacks in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Race in literature; African Americans in literature; Blacks -- Race identity; African Americans -- Race identity
Description: "America and the Black Body is a timely exploration into the creative, literary, and visual uses of the black body in American print and visual culture. More specifically, this volume contemplates the social development of American identity and the multifarious ways this identity coalesces in the small gestures of preclusion that establish discemable markers of national belonging. Such investigations underscore issues of power and disenfranchisement, of race, class, and gender that mediate the representations of the black male and the black female body in real and imagined ways, as it also reveals the invisible social and political ties that connect white men and women's identities to these racial imaginings."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.