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African Americans and the Culture of Pain (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Debra Walker King
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Description for African Americans and the Culture of Pain (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Paperback. 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. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
In this compelling new study, Debra Walker King 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. King's primary hypothesis is that, in the United States, black experience of the body in pain is as much a construction of social, ethical, and economic politics as it is a physiological phenomenon.As an essential element defining black experience in America, pain plays many roles. It is used to promote racial stereotypes, increase the ... Read more
In this compelling new study, Debra Walker King 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. King's primary hypothesis is that, in the United States, black experience of the body in pain is as much a construction of social, ethical, and economic politics as it is a physiological phenomenon.As an essential element defining black experience in America, pain plays many roles. It is used to promote racial stereotypes, increase the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926810
SKU
V9780813926810
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About Debra Walker King
Debra Walker King is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of Deep Talk: Reading African-American Literary Names (Virginia) and editor of Body Politics and the Fictional Double.
Reviews for African Americans and the Culture of Pain (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
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 ... Read more