Black Mothers and the National Body Politic - The Narrative Positioning of Black Maternal Body From Civil War

Through discussion of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present, this book examines the positioning of the black maternal body within and in relationship to the national body politic. The author argues that the nation has simultaneously used and cast off the black mother for centuries.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Subordination of Embodied Power: Sentimental Representations of the Black Maternal Body in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Chapter 2: Recuperating the Body: Embodiment and Reintegration into the Black Community in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces and Toni Morrison's Beloved
Chapter 3: The Narrative Power of the Black Maternal Body: Resisting and Exceeding Visual Economies of Discipline in Margaret Walker's Jubilee and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
Chapter 4: Mapping Black Motherhood onto the Nation: Southern Legacies and National Realities in Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone
Coda: Michelle Obama in Context
References
Acknowledgements
About the Author

About the author

Andrea Powell Wolfe teaches literature, composition, and humanities at Ball State University.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Powell Wolfe, Andrea Powell Wolfe
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781793631299
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-129-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people