The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415895507 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 308 str.

Caroline Brown

Opis

This volume examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Gaps and Contradictions: Righting the Black Body in the White Text 1: The Poetics of Late Capitalism and the Black Cultural Imaginary: Revising Modernity’s Archive through Postmodern Praxis 2: A Complicated Anger: The Performative Black Body as Postmodern Bricolage 3: When the Circle Has Been Broken and No Words Can Heal the Pain: Possession-Performance as Ritual Mourning 4: The Haunted Echo and the Riddle of the Word: the Black Musical Tradition as the Renegotiation of Identity 5: The Scopic and the Scene: Performance, Performativity, and the Destabilization of the Racial Gaze 6: The Silenced Tongue, a Rebellious Art: the Body as Tableau Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Caroline Brown is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Montreal. She specializes in African-American and diasporic literature, 20th century U.S. literature, and women’s studies. Her articles have appeared in African American Review, Obsidian III, NWSA Journal, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.