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OverviewIn this book, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa B. ThompsonPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.313kg ISBN: 9780252078903ISBN 10: 025207890 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 August 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class 1 Part 1: Performing Identity 1. Spectacle of the Respectable: Anita Hill and the Problem of Innocence 21 2. Staging Black Female Desire: The Drama of Race, Class, and Sexuality 43 3. Black Ladies and Black Magic Women:Independent Film and Black Sexuality 72 Part 2: Refashioning the Black Female Self 4. Narrating Sexuality in Contemporary African American Autobiography 97 5. Sex, Travel, and the Single African American Girl: Andrea Lee's Sarah Phillips 118 Epilogue 137 Notes 141 Index 175Reviews<p> 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 [Thompson] finds that some Black women are pioneering new ways to be and to give voice to a more fully actualized, human, female persona. This new woman is long overdue. --Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 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 Author InformationLisa B. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the play Single Black Female. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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