Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class - Couverture souple

Thompson, Lisa B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 025207890X ISBN 13 : 9780252078903

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Lisa B. Thompson explores the representation of black middle class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, drama, film, and popular culture, showing how these depictions reclaim black female agency and illustrate the difficulties black women confront in asserting sexual agency in the public sphere. Thompson broadens the discourse around black female sexuality by offering an alternate reading of the overly determined racial and sexual script that casts the middle class "black lady" as the bastion of African American propriety. Drawing on the work of black feminist theorists, she examines symptomatic autobiographies, novels, plays, and key episodes in contemporary American popular culture, including works by Anita Hill, Judith Alexa Jackson, P. J. Gibson, Julie Dash, Kasi Lemmons, Jill Nelson, Lorene Cary, and Andrea Lee.

Revue de presse :

"In refreshingly clear prose, Lisa B. Thompson renders a complex and nuanced reading of black middle-class women from both fiction and real life. This study makes an important intervention in the discourse on what has heretofore been an under-theorized subject." E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South "A path-breaking, cogently argued, bold study of the ways in which black women writers and public figures have engaged, confronted, resisted, or overturned prevailing notions of black middle-class women's sexuality." Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings --Valerie Smith, author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 025207890X
• ISBN 13: 9780252078903
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 183