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| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Henderson, Carol E., 1964- Scarring the Black body. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2002 (DLC) 2002073957 (OCoLC)50204301 |
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| 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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- 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.
