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African Americans and the Culture of Pain - Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
Debra Walker King
African Americans and the Culture of Pain - Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
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. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.
224 pages, 3 b&w illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 4, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780813926810 |
Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 224 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 13 mm · 290 g |
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