Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Manigault-Bryant Lomax, Duncan

      Pages 1-13

3. Filmography

   1. Filmography

      • LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Tamura A. Lomax, Carol B. Duncan

      Pages 15-24

4. Theology, Spirituality, and Black Popular Religious Imaginations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Tyler Perry Reads Scripture

      • Nyasha Junior

      Pages 27-40

   3. Signifying Love and Embodied Relationality: Toward a Womanist Theological Anthropology

      • Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan

      Pages 41-56

   4. Jesus Will Fix It, After While: The Purpose and Role of Gospel Music in Tyler Perry Productions

      • Lisa M. Allen-McLaurin

      Pages 57-72

   5. Screening God

      • Andrea C. White

      Pages 73-88

5. Theorizing Intersecting Identities and (Re)Envisioning Black Womanhood

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. “A People That Would Take Care of Ourselves”: Tyler Perry’s Vision of Community and Gender Relations

      • Yolande M. S. Tomlinson

      Pages 91-106

   3. “It Ain’t Where You Comin’ from, Honey”: Class, Social Mobility, and Marriage in Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion

      • Carol B. Duncan

      Pages 107-123

   4. Mad Black Bitches and Ladylike Saints: Representations of African American Womanhood in Tyler Perry Films

      • Tamura A. Lomax

      Pages 125-146

   5. (Re)Mediating Black Womanhood: Tyler Perry, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism, and the Politics of Legitimation

      • Whitney Peoples

      Pages 147-162

6. The Politics of Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Pause, Auntie Momma! Reading Religion in Tyler Perry’s Fat Drag

      • LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

      Pages 165-186

   3. Madea vs. Medea: Agape and the Militarist or Murderous Maternal

      • Joy James

      Pages 187-200

7. Black Women as Religio-Cultural Capital

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Tyler Perry and the (Mis)Representation of Religious Morality

      • Terrion L. Williamson

      Pages 203-216

   3. “Do You Want to Be Well?” The Gospel Play, Womanist Theology, and Tyler Perry’s Artistic Project

      • Robert J. Patterson

      Pages 217-233

   4. Talking Back and Taking My “Amens” with Me: Tyler Perry and the Narrative Colonization of Black Women’s Stories

      • Brittney Cooper

      Pages 235-249

Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black women, black communities and black religion. Yet, a text that responds to his efforts from the perspective of these groups does not exist.

• Tyler Perry
• The Black Church
• African American Representations
• Black Cultural Productions
• Madea
• Womanism/Black Feminism
• Africa
• care
• feminism
• gender
• imagination
• Jesus
• love
• Medea
• media
• mobility
• music
• nation
• play
• project
• religion

Lisa Allen, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA Brittney Cooper, Rutgers, USA Joy James, Williams College, USA Nyasha Junior, Howard University, USA Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University, USA Robert J. Patterson, Georgetown University, USA Whitney Peoples, Emory University, USA T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Vanderbilt University, USA Yolande M. S. Tomlinson, Emory University, USA Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University, USA Andrea C. White, Emory University, USA Terrion L. Williamson, Michigan State University, USA

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