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Recovering the Black Female Body - Self-Representation by African American Women (Paperback)
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Recovering the Black Female Body - Self-Representation by African American Women (Paperback)
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"Although feminists have studied the social construction of the
female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In
Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering
collection of original writings by academics and artists on 'how
African-American women, from slavery to the present, have
represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted
vision of the dominant culture.'"-Publishers Weekly "A collection
of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the
body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to
'amplify' African American women writers' attempts to 'take back
their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has
often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of
impropriety and crime.'"-The Women's Review of Books "By examining
African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a
body of scholarly work but also attempts to 'recover' a more
accurate representation of the African American female
body."-DePauw Magazine "A highly original and very informative
collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of
the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The
collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions
between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject
formation, social agency, and performative identity."-Claudia Tate,
Princeton University Despite the recent flood of scholarly work
investigating race, gender, and representation, little has been
written about black women's depictions of their own bodies. Both
past and present-day American cultural discourse has attempted to
either hypereroticize the black female body or make it a site of
impropriety and crime. The essays in this volume focus on how
African American women, from the nineteenth century to the present,
have represented their physical selves in opposition to the
distorted vision of others. Contributors attempt to "recover" the
black female body in two ways: they explore how dominant historical
images have mediated black female identity, and they analyze how
black women have resisted often demeaning popular cultural
perceptions in favor of more diverse, subtle presentations of self.
The pieces in this book-all of them published here for the first
time-address a wide range of topics, from antebellum American
poetry to nineteenth-century African American actors and
twentieth-century pulp fiction. Recovering the Black Female Body
recognizes the pressing need to highlight the vibrant energy of
African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical
and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions
of others. Michael Bennett is an associate professor of English at
Long Island University and coeditor of The Nature of Cities:
Ecocriticism and Urban Environments. Vanessa D. Dickerson is an
associate professor of English at DePauw University. She is the
author of Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the
Supernatural, and editor of Keeping the Victorian House.
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