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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Henderson, Carol E., 1964- Scarring the Black body. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2002 (OCoLC)606898366 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carol E Henderson |
| ISBN: | 0826214215 9780826214218 |
| OCLC Number: | 50204301 |
| Description: | xiii, 184 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Bearing witness: reading the narrative of the African American body -- The call: -- Imag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse -- Whip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition -- The response: -- Bodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Dis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- "Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street -- Fingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited -- Awakenings: a personal odyssey. |
| Responsibility: | Carol E. Henderson. |
Abstract:
"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.
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- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- African Americans -- Intellectual life.
- Wounds and injuries in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Negers.
- Schrijvers.
- Littekens.
- Rassenongelijkheid.
- Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique.
- Lésions et blessures dans la littérature.
- Noirs américains dans la littérature.
- Corps humain dans la littérature.
- Race dans la littérature.
- Literatur
- Rassenbeziehung
- USA
- Schwarze
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