Title: America and the black body
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.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Blacks in literature, Blacks, Race identity, History and criticism, American literature, Race in literature, African Americans, Body, Human, in literature, Human body in literature, Identity politics, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Blacks in art, Blacks, race identity, African americans, race identity, Black people in literature, Black people
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century