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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148760203321

Autore

Wallace Michele

Titolo

Invisibility blues : from pop to theory / / Michele Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Verso, , 2016

ISBN

1-78663-193-8

1-78663-194-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages)

Disciplina

305.48896073

Soggetti

African American women

African American artists

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

African American arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- New Introduction -- Part I: Black Feminism/Autobiography -- 1. Memories of a 60s Girlhood: the Harlem I Love -- 2. Anger in Isolation: A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood -- 3. Baby Faith -- 4. For the Women's House -- 5. A Women's Prison and The Movement -- 6. The Dah Principle: to be Continued -- 7. Homelessness is Where the Heart Is -- Part II: Pop -- 8. Blues for Mr Spielberg -- 9. Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and 'The Ecstasy of Communication' -- 10. Invisibility Blues -- 11. Spike Lee and Black Women -- 12. Doing the Right Thing -- 13. Entertainment Tomorrow -- 14. Mississippi Burning and Bird -- Part III: Culture/History -- 15. For Colored Girls, the Rainbow is Not Enough -- 16. Slaves of History -- 17. Ishmael Reed's Female Troubles -- 18. Wilma Mankiller: Profile -- 19. Twenty Years Later -- 20. Who Owns Zora Neale Hurston?: Critics Carve Up the Legend -- 21. Reading 1968: The Great American Whitewash -- 22. Tim Rollins and KOS: the Amerika Series -- Part IV: Theory -- 23. Variations on Negation and the Heresy of Black Feminist Creativity -- 24. Negative Images: Towards a Black Feminist Cultural Criticism -- Notes -- Index.