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- catalog abstract ""Scarring and the act of scarring are recurrent images in African American literature. In Scarring the Black Body, Carol E. Henderson analyzes the cultural and historical implications of scarring in a number of African American texts that feature the trope of the scar, including works by Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12683745.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Scarring and the act of scarring are recurrent images in African American literature. In Scarring the Black Body, Carol E. Henderson analyzes the cultural and historical implications of scarring in a number of African American texts that feature the trope of the scar, including works by Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-180) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 184 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Scarring the Black body.".
- catalog identifier "0826214215 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Scarring the Black body.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Scarring the Black body.".
- catalog subject "810.9/355 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American literature African American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Human body in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS153.N5 H46 2002".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "Wounds and injuries in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature / Carol E. Henderson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".