LEADER 03982cam 2200493 i 4500001 on1182868729 003 OCoLC 005 20210126083130.3 008 200810t20212021mdu b 001 0 eng d 020 9781793631299 020 1793631298 |q(cloth) 020 |z9781793631305 |q(electronic) 035 (Sirsi) o1182868729 035 (OCoLC)1182868729 040 YDX |beng |erda |cYDX |dBDX |dUKMGB |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dMNT |dOCLCO |dUtOrBLW 050 4 PS153.N5 |bW65 2021 082 04 813.00935252 |223 100 1 Wolfe, Andrea Powell, |eauthor. |=^A1419712 245 10 Black mothers and the national body politic : |bthe narrative positioning of the black maternal body from the Civil War period through the present / |cAndrea Wolfe Powell. 264 1 Lanham [Maryland] : |bLexington Books, |c[2021] 264 4 |c©2021 300 233 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index. 520 " ... focuses on the struggles and triumphs of black motherhood in six works of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present. Andrea Powell Wolfe examines the functioning of the black maternal body to both define and undermine ideal white womanhood; the physical scarring of the black mother and the reclamation of the black maternal body as a site of subversion and nurturance as well as erotic empowerment; and the construction of oppressive discourses surrounding black female bodies and reproduction and the development of resistance to these types of discourses. These tensions undergird a multifaceted discussion of the narrative positioning of the black maternal body within and in relationship to the national body politic, an inherently exclusionary and restrictive metaphorical entity constructed and socially contracted over time by an already politically empowered citizenry. Ultimately, close analysis of the texts under study suggests that the United States -- as a figurative body complete with imagined 'parts' that perform separate functions, from intelligence to labor, ingestion to expulsion -- has simultaneously used and cast off the black maternal body over the course of centuries." -- |cPublisher. 505 0 Introduction -- The subordination of embodied power : sentimental representations of the black maternal body in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- Recuperating the body : Embodiment and reintegration into the black community in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- The narrative power of the lack maternal body : resisting and exceeding visual economies of discipline in Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Mapping black motherhood onto the nation: Southern legacies and national realities in Lillian Smith's Strange fruit and Alice Randall's The wind done gone -- Coda : Michelle Obama in context. 650 0 African American mothers in literature. |=^A1318303 650 0 African American women in literature. |=^A121412 650 0 American fiction |y19th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A74584 650 0 American fiction |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A22044 650 0 American fiction |y21st century |xHistory and criticism. |=^A33921 650 7 African Americans in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00799727 650 7 American fiction. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 Mothers in literature. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01027013 648 7 1800-2099 |2fast 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s105.00 |uJENG |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 5560462