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Author Henderson, Carol E., 1964-

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

Publication Info. Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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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Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
Wounds and injuries in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: 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)
9780826262899 (electronic book)
9780826214218 (alkaline paper)
0826214215 (alkaline paper)