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

Thompson, Lisa B.

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ISBN 10: 0252034260 ISBN 13: 9780252034268

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"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

L'autore:

Lisa B. Thompson is an associate professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, and the author of the playSingle Black Female.

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• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0252034260
• ISBN 13: 9780252034268
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 183