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1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: Bearing witness: reading the narrative of the African American body -- The call: -- Imag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse -- Whip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition -- The response: -- Bodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Dis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- "Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street -- Fingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited -- Awakenings: a personal odyssey. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Wounds and injuries in literature.
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Wounds and injuries in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Henderson, Carol E., 1964- Scarring the Black body. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002 0826214215 (DLC) 2002073957 (OCoLC)50204301 |
ISBN |
0826262899 (electronic book) |
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9780826262899 (electronic book) |
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9780826214218 (alkaline paper) |
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0826214215 (alkaline paper) |
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