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001 2014035567
003 DLC
005 20150812080822.0
008 141001s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014035567
020 $a9781137428851 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS366.A35$bC88 2015
082 00 $a810.9/928708996073$223
084 $aBIO022000$aLIT000000$aLIT004040$aLIT007000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aCurtis, Tracy,$eauthor.
245 10 $aNew media in Black women's autobiography :$bintrepid embodiment and narrative innovation /$cTracy Curtis.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $aix, 226 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a" Using 1980 as a starting point, Curtis explores how black women's insistence on writing embodiment into their narratives addresses and supplants images deployed against them. She argues that although many stereotypes rely on the notion that black female identity comes only from and through the body, emphasis on corporeality serves these women well. Joining somatic experience with complicated inner lives compels at least understanding and perhaps empathy. Privileging their experiences as the only road to truths about their lives succeeds across formats. Deployed by black women, new media facilitate well-executed, defiant, creative autobiographical gestures that should be considered among the most effective and innovative in their respective milieus"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Whose Tools?: Audre Lorde's Narrative Mastery in The Cancer Journals and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name -- 2. Naming All These Women: Jill Nelson's Portrayals in Volunteer Slavery and Straight, No Chaser -- 3. Born Into This Body: Black Women's Use of Buddhism in Autobiographical Narratives -- 4. Moving on From Control: Janet Jackson's Lot Improves as She Loses the Uniform -- 5. Down a Dangerous Cyber Street: Black Women's Online Writing -- 6. At Arms' Length: The Selfie, Public Personae, and Instagram Use in Young Black Women and Adolescents -- Conclusion.
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican American women authors$xBiography$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.$2bisacsh