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Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature

Author: Carol E Henderson
Publisher: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Henderson, Carol E., 1964-
Scarring the Black body.
Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2002
(OCoLC)606898366
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.

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"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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