The suffering will not be televised : African American women and sentimental political storytelling / Rebecca Wanzo.

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Main Author: Wanzo, Rebecca Ann, 1975-
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women > Political activity.
Women in mass media.
Mass media and women.
Physical Description:x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Saving Shoshana : an introduction to sentimental political storytelling
  • Incidents in the life of a (volunteer) slave girl : the specter of slavery and escapes from history
  • The reading cure : Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, and sentimental identification
  • Salvation in his arms : rape, race, and intimacy's salve
  • In the shadow of Anarcha : race, pain, and medical storytelling
  • The abduction will not be televised : suffering hierarchies, simple stories, and the logic of child protection in the United States
  • Coda : lifetime, anyone? : a meditation on victims.