Beyond the Black Lady
Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class
Series: New Black Studies Series; 142;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 30 August 2012
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252078903
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages200 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 313 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
"In 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."
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments 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 175
