African Americans and the Culture of Pain |
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| Author:
| King, Debra Walker |
| Series title: | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-2680-3 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.