New media in Black women's autobiography : intrepid embodiment and narrative innovation / Tracy Curtis.

" 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 bod...

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Main Author: Curtis, Tracy (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
African American women authors > Biography > History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
African American women authors > Biography.
American prose literature > African American authors.
American prose literature > Women authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:ix, 226 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
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  • 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.