The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Whether invisible or hyper-visible, adored or reviled, from the inception of American literature the Black body has been rendered in myriad forms. This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The book is divided into three sections that highlight Black embodiment through conceptual flashpoints that emphasize various aspects of human body in its visual and textual manifestations. This Companion engages past and continuing debates about the nature of embodiment by showcasing how writers from multiple eras and communities defined and challenged the limits of what constitutes a body in relation to human and nonhuman environment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-16
Mått:158 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Companions to Literature
Antal sidor:330
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009204156

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Cherene Sherrard-Johnson is E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and Chair of English at Pomona College. She is the author of Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (2007); Dorothy West's Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color (2012); two poetry collections, Vixen (2017) and Grimoire (2020), and the editor of A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (2015).

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'Recommended.' B. Taylor-Thompson, CHOICE

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Celestial Bodies: An Introduction Cherene Sherrard Johnson; Part I. Extraction and Abstraction: 1. Theorizing black bodies Sam Plasencia; 2. The black body and the medical archive Julius B. Fleming; 3. Laboring bodies Crystal S. Donkor; 4. Animalia Americana Joshua Bennett; 5. Black ecological insurgencies J. T. Roane; 6. The black body in nature Anissa Wardi; Part II. Black Optics: Invisibility and Hypervisibility: 7. Synesthetic embodiment Yanie Fecu; 8. Dancing bodies Rachel Farebrother; 9. Celebrity bodies Samantha Pinto; 10. Embodied black aliveness Lisa Woolfork; 11. Staging racial passing Kyle Frisina; 12. Passing bodies Lisa Mendelman and Octavio R. Gonzalez; Part III. Quare Bodies: 13. Body of knowledge: Audre Lorde's Zami Alexandria Smith; 14. The Black body, violence, and religion Ahmad Greene Hayes; 15. Black Cripistemologies Anna Laquawn Hinton; 16. Black erotic bodies Julian Kevon Glover; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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