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The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art
Performing Identity
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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,...
Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge