Beyond the Black Lady

Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class

AvLisa B. Thompson

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Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

In this book, Lisa B. Thompson explores the representation of black middle-class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, drama, film, and popular culture, showing how these depictions reclaim black female agency and illustrate the difficulties black women confront in asserting sexual agency in the public sphere. Thompson broadens the discourse around black female sexuality by offering an alternate reading of the overly determined racial and sexual script that casts the middle class "black lady" as the bastion of African American propriety. Drawing on the work of black feminist theorists, she examines symptomatic autobiographies, novels, plays, and key episodes in contemporary American popular culture, including works by Anita Hill, Judith Alexa Jackson, P. J. Gibson, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Jill Nelson, Lorene Cary, and Andrea Lee.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-11
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252056390
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lisa B. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the play Single Black Female.

Recensioner i media

Received an honorable mention for the National Women's Studies Association's Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, 2010.— National Women's Studies Association

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ix IntroductionBeyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class 1 Part 1: Performing Identity1. Spectacle of the Respectable: Anita Hill and the Problem of Innocence 212. Staging Black Female Desire: The Drama of Race, Class, and Sexuality 433. Black Ladies and Black Magic Women:Independent Film and Black Sexuality 72 Part 2: Refashioning the Black Female Self4. Narrating Sexuality in Contemporary African American Autobiography 975. Sex, Travel, and the Single African American Girl: Andrea Lee's Sarah Phillips 118Epilogue 137 Notes 141Index 175