Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature / Carol E. Henderson.

"Scarring and the act of scarring are recurrent images in African American literature. In Scarring the Black Body, Carol E. Henderson analyzes the cultural and historical implications of scarring in a number of African American texts that feature the trope of the scar, including works by Sherle...

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Main Author: Henderson, Carol E., 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002.
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505 0 0 |g Introduction:  |t Bearing witness: reading the narrative of the African American body --  |g The call: --  |t Imag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse --  |t Whip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition --  |g The response: --  |t Bodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose --  |t Dis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved --  |t "Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street --  |t Fingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited --  |t Awakenings: a personal odyssey. 
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