Imagining the Black female body : reconciling image in print and visual culture / edited by Carol E. Henderson.

Other author Henderson, Carol E., 1964-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Descriptionxiii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Racing sexing, sexing race : the invention of the Black feminine body / Kaila Adia Story -- Disembodiments : Ellen Gallagher's watery metamorphoses / Ana Nunes -- Stigmata : embodying the scars of slavery / Venetria K. Patton -- Pull up to the bumper : fashion and queerness in Grace Jones' one man show / Maria J. Guzman -- Images that sell : the Black female body imag(in)ed in 1960s and 1970s magazine ads / Michelle L. Filling -- Women, for women : Black women, all grown up / Debra A. Powell-Wright -- The lower stratum of history : the grotesque comic stereotypes of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker / Julie Burrell -- 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 -- If rigor is our dream : the re-membering of violence by Black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance / Zetta Elliott.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Imagining the Black female body. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
LCCN 2010017572
ISBN9780230107052 (alk. paper)
ISBN0230107052 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E185.86 .I49 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold