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Imagining the Black Female Body

Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture

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  1. Carol E. Henderson
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Public Property

    • Carol E. Henderson
    Pages 1-19

  3. Racing Sex—Sexing Race

    • Kaila Adia Story
    Pages 23-43

  4. Disembodiments

    • Ana Nunes
    Pages 45-58

  5. Stigmata

    • Venetria K. Patton
    Pages 59-76

  6. “Pull Up to the Bumper”

    • Maria J. Guzman
    Pages 79-93

  7. Images That Sell

    • Michelle L. Filling
    Pages 95-108

  8. Four Women, For Women

    • Debra A. Powell-Wright
    Pages 109-120

  9. The Lower Stratum of History

    • Julie Burrell
    Pages 123-144

  10. Navel-Erasing

    • Stacie Selmon McCormick
    Pages 145-161

  11. ‘If Rigor Is Our Dream’

    • Zetta Elliott
    Pages 163-190

  12. Afterword: “You… You Remind Me of…”

    • Maria del Guadalupe Davidson
    Pages 191-205

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 207-218
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About this book

This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture.  Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms.

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"Imagining the Black Female Body enters into a critical dialogue about literary and visual representations of the black female body in order to connect contemporary representations of black womanhood with an historical legacy of African American women's experiences. Captivating original essays attend to a history of abuse and pain as well as a history of joyful survival and celebration. The volume is thus inherently interdisciplinary in demonstrating how black women have sought to re-imagine their world and reconstitute how the world sees them. Students and scholars of rhetoric, visual culture, and history will find it especially resonant." - Lovalerie King, Director, Africana Research Center, Penn State University "Professor Henderson has pulled together an engaging interdisciplinary volume on a most evocative subject. Giving scholarly credit where credit is due, Imagining the Black Female Body does not however simply retread others' arguments on gender, race, sexuality, and agency, but pushes the analyses in new directions." - T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University, and author of Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women

About the authors

Carol E. Henderson is Associate Director of Black American Studies and Associate Professor of English and Black American Studies at the University of Delaware.

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