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Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature
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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:   eBook : Document : State or province government publication : English
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Henderson, Carol E., 1964-
Scarring the Black body.
Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2002
(DLC) 2002073957
(OCoLC)50204301
Material Type: Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Carol E Henderson
OCLC Number: 606898366
Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 184 p.)
Details: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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.
Contributing Library: University of Michigan

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