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New media in Black women's autobiography : intrepid embodiment and narrative innovation

Curtis, Tracy, author

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\" 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 body, emphasis on corporeality serves these women well. Joining somatic experience with complicated inner lives compels at least understanding and perhaps empathy. Privileging their experiences as the only road to truths about their lives succeeds across formats. Deployed by black women, new media facilitate well-executed, defiant, creative autobiographical gestures that should be considered among the most effective and innovative in their respective milieus\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9781137428851, 1137428856

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS366.A35 C88 2015	1	BOOK	ARTS