Andrea Powell Wolfe

Black Mothers and the National Body Politic

The Narrative Positioning of the Black Maternal Body from the Civil War Period through the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Through discussion of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present, this book examines the positioning of the black maternal body within and in relationship to the national body politic. The author argues that the nation has simultaneously used and cast off the black mother for centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781793631299
• ISBN-10: 1793631298
• Artikelnr.: 59942280

Autorenporträt

By Andrea Powell Wolfe

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Subordination of Embodied Power: Sentimental Representations
of the Black Maternal Body in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and
Harriet Jacobs's Incidentsin the Life of a Slave Girl
Chapter 2: Recuperating the Body: Embodiment and Reintegration into the
Black Community in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces and Toni Morrison's
Beloved
Chapter 3: The Narrative Power of the Black Maternal Body: Resisting and
Exceeding Visual Economies of Discipline in Margaret Walker's Jubilee and
Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
Chapter 4: Mapping Black Motherhood onto the Nation: Southern Legacies and
National Realities in Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Alice Randall's The
Wind Done Gone
Coda: Michelle Obama in Context
References
Acknowledgements
About the Author