America and the black body : identity politics in print and visual culture /
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| Imprint: | Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009. |
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| Description: | 294 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7884789 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Bordering on the Black Body: Text and Subtext in America's Literature and Culture
- Part I. Race Matters: Texts and Contexts
- Narrating African American Subjectivity through the Body: Critical Race Theory and Legal Discourse
- Distorted Images in Travel Literature: An Exploration of the Subjugation of Blackness in the Western World
- The Culture of Sentiments and the Black Female Body in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace
- Emerson's Platonic Influence: Working toward a "Well Colored and Shaded Globe"
- The Bodies of Black Folk: From Kant and Hegel to DuBois and Baldwin
- Part II. Mutual Relations: Race, Gender, Formation
- The Sentimental Slave Body in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave
- Writing Realism, Policing Consciousness: Howells and the Black Body
- Genealogical Ambiguity and Racial Identity: Adoption and Passing in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" and Jessie Redmon Fauset's "The Sleeper Wakes"
- Part III. Body/Language: Visions and Revisions
- The Body against Itself in Faulkner's Phenomenology of Race
- Policing the Racial Divide: The Body, The Nation, and the Emmett Till Murder
- A Space beyond Beulah: Assessing the Mixed Race Body in Danzy Senna's "The Land of Beulah"
- A Phenomenology of the Black Body
- Afterword: The Black Body: Under the Weight of White America's Microtomes
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
