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Palgrave
Language
English
Pages
218

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 Introduction
The Black Female Body: Seeing, Believing,
and Perpetuating Popular and Literary Images
Chapter 2 A Raisin in the Sun
The Strong Black Woman as Acceptable Tyrant
Chapter 3 Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery
I. Even Parody: Ishmael Reed and Maamy Barracuda
Chapter 4 Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery
II. Survival Beyond Survival:
The Price of Strength in Beloved
Chapter 5 Commanding the Universe
I. More Than Witch: Barbaras Minnie Ransom
I. Tough Enough to Kill, Tough Enough
to Transcend Death: J i Califni Coopers Clora
C hapter 6 Strength as Disease Bordering on Evil
Dorothy West's Cleo Judson
Chapter 7 The Stubbornness of Tradition
Do What Big Mama Sez: Ernest J. Gainess
A Lesson Befoe Dying
II. New Territory, No Change: Pearl Clcage's Fyin Wst
Chapter 8: Balance?
Octavia E. Butle's Parable of the Sower
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Can this Mold be Broken?
Notes
Works Cited or Consulted
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/352042
Library of Congress
PS153.N5 H29 2001, PN843-PN846HM401-128

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 218 p. ;
Number of pages
218

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3947870M
Internet Archive
saintssinnerssav0000harr
ISBN 10
0312293003
LCCN
2001036009
OCLC/WorldCat
47054735
Goodreads
472595

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