Therí a Pickens

New Body Politics

Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Therí A. Pickens discusses a range of literary, cultural, and archival material where narratives emphasize embodied experience to examine how these experiences constitute Arab Americans and African Americans as social and political subjects. Narrating Black and Arab Bodies in the Contemporary United States participates in a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation about cross-ethnic studies, American literature, and Arab American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415735216
• ISBN-10: 0415735211
• Artikelnr.: 39594706

Autorenporträt

Therí A. Pickens is an Assistant Professor of English at Bates College. Her research focuses on Arab American and African American literatures and cultures, Disability Studies, philosophy, and literary theory. Her critical work has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Journal of Canadian Literature, Al-Raida, and, the ground-breaking collection, Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Respirating Resistance: Suheir Hammad's Invocation of
Breath. 2. Try a Little Tenderness: Tactilic Experience in Danzy Senna and
Alicia Erian. 3. Unfitting and Not Belonging: Feeling Embodied and Being
Displaced in Rabih Alameddine's Fiction. 4. Beyond 1991: Magic Johnson and
the Limits of HIV/AIDS Activism. 5. The Big C Meets the Big O: Pain and
Pleasure in Breast Cancer Narratives. Conclusion.