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100 1 $aHenderson, Carol E.,$d1964-
245 10 $aScarring the Black body :$brace and representation in African American literature /$cCarol E. Henderson.
260 $aColumbia, Mo. :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$cc2002.
300 $axiii, 184 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-180) and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction:$tBearing witness: reading the narrative of the African American body --$gThe call: --$tImag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse --$tWhip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition --$gThe response: --$tBodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose --$tDis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved --$t"Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street --$tFingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited --$tAwakenings: a personal odyssey.
520 1 $a"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.
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWounds and injuries in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHenderson, Carol E., 1964-$tScarring the Black body.$dColumbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2002$w(OCoLC)606898366
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