{"product_id":"recovering-the-black-female-body-self-representation-by-african-american-women-paperback-softback-9780813528397","title":"Recovering the Black Female Body; Self-Representation by African American Women (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813528397","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRecovering the Black Female Body\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelf-Representation by African American Women\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Bennett (Edited by), Vanessa D. Dickerson (Edited by), Michael Bennett (Contributions by), Vanessa D. Dickerson (Contributions by), Daphne Brooks (Contributions by), Dorri Beam (Contributions by), Meredith Goldsmith (Contributions by), Ajuan Mance (Contributions by), Yvette Louis (Contributions by), Doris Witt (Contributions by), Margaret Bass (Contributions by), Mark Winokur (Contributions by), Jacqueline Brady (Contributions by), Deborah E. McDowell (Contributions by), Carla L. Peterson (Contributions by), Noliwe M. Rooks (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813528397\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.596 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAlthough feminists have studied the social construction of the female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering collection of original writings by academics and artists on æhow African-American women, from slavery to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of the dominant culture.Æ.\u003c\/div\u003e (Publishers Weekly) \u003cdiv\u003eA collection of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to æamplifyÆ African American women writersÆ attempts to ætake back their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of impropriety and crime.Æ.\u003c\/div\u003e (WomenÆs Review of Books) \u003cdiv\u003eBy examining African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a body of scholarly work but also attempts to ærecoverÆ a more accurate representation of the African American female body.\u003c\/div\u003e (DePauw Magazine) \u003cdiv\u003eA highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity.\u003c\/div\u003e - Claudia Tate (Princeton University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Despite the recent flood of scholarly work investigating the interrelated issues of race, gender, and representation, little has been written about black women’s depictions of their own bodies. Both past and present-day American cultural discourse has attempted either to hypereroticize the black female body or make it a site of impropriety and crime. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The essays in this volume focus on how African American women, from the nineteenth century to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of others. Contributors attempt to  “recover” the black female body in two ways: they explore how dominant historical images have mediated black female identity, and they analyze how black women have resisted often demeaning popular cultural perceptions in favor of more diverse, subtle presentations of self.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The pieces in this book-all of them published here for the first time-address a wide range of topics, from antebellum American poetry to nineteenth-century African American actors, and twentieth-century pulp fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecovering the Black Female Body\u003c\/i\u003e recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women’s attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Contributors are Margaret Bass, Dorri Rabung Beam, Michael Bennett, Jacqueline E. Brady, Daphne A. Brooks, Vanessa D. Dickerson, Meredith Goldsmith, Yvette Louis, Ajuan Maria Mance, Noliwe Rooks, Mark Winokur, and Doris Witt. This book also contains a foreword by Carla L. Peterson and an afterword by Deborah E. McDowell. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric \/ Michael Bennett\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eThe deeds done in my body\"\u003cbr\u003e: black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken \/ Daphne A. Brooks\u003cbr\u003e The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona \/ Dorri Rabung Beam\u003cbr\u003e Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen \/ Meredith Goldsmith\u003cbr\u003e Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton \/ Ajuan Maria Mance\u003cbr\u003e Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world \/ Yvette Louis\u003cbr\u003e Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman \/ Doris Witt\u003cbr\u003e Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction \/ Vanessa D. Dickerson\u003cbr\u003e On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture \/ Margaret K. Bass\u003cbr\u003e Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman \/ Mark Winokur\u003cbr\u003e Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body \/ Jacqueline E. Brady\u003cbr\u003e Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield \/ Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins)\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals \/ Deborah E. McDowell\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52745259450648,"sku":"9780813528397","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/recovering-the-black-female-body-self-representation-by-african-american-women-paperback-softback-9780813528397","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}