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Paperback The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity Book

ISBN: 0415744245

ISBN13: 9780415744249

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity

This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate are bound to such contemporary, postmodern visual...

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