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Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.

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This book examines pain as one of the lasting legacies of our racialized society. This is an important topic, and Deborah Walker King, a respected scholar of African American literary and cultural studies, adds immensely to our understanding of pain in the African American experience. The book, elegantly written and critically sound, is a substantial contribution to African American literary and cultural studies. - Angelyn Mitchell, Georgetown University, author of The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction

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      Publisher: University of Virginia Press
      Publication Date: 04/03/2008
      ISBN13: 9780813926810, 978-0813926810
      ISBN10: 0813926815
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      Film history, theory or criticism Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.

      Trade Review
      This book examines pain as one of the lasting legacies of our racialized society. This is an important topic, and Deborah Walker King, a respected scholar of African American literary and cultural studies, adds immensely to our understanding of pain in the African American experience. The book, elegantly written and critically sound, is a substantial contribution to African American literary and cultural studies. - Angelyn Mitchell, Georgetown University, author of The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction

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