Contributor
Henderson, Carol E., 1964-
Imprint:Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
Description294 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Bordering on the black body: text and subtext in America's literature and culture / Carol E. Henderson -- Narrating African American subjectivity through the body: critical race theory and legal discourse / Richard Schur -- Distorted images in travel literature: an exploration of the subjugation of blackness in the western world / Katrina Dyonne Thompson -- The Culture of sentiments and the black female body in the nineteenth-century literary marketplace / Allison E. Francis -- Emerson's platonic influence: working toward a well colored and shaded globe / Elizabeth R. Schroeder -- The Bodies of black folk: from Kant and Hegel to DuBois and Baldwin / David Farrell Krell -- The Sentimental slave body in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave / Therese M. Rizzo -- Writing realism, policing consciousness: Howells and the black body / Henry B. Wonham -- Genealogical ambiguity and racial identity: adoption and passing in Kate Chopin's Desiree's Baby and Jessie Redmon Fauset's The Sleeper Wakes / Marina Fedosik -- The Body against itself in Faulkner's phenomenology of race / Laura Doyle -- Policing the racial divide: the body, the nation, and the Emmett Till murder / Carol E. Henderson -- A space beyond Beulah: assessing the mixed race body in Danzy Senna's The Land of Beulah / Simone C. Drake -- A phenomenology of the black body / Charles Johnson -- Afterword: The black body: under the weight of white America's microtomes / George Yancy
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
