New Media in Black Women's Autobiography: Intrepid Embodiment and Narrative Innovation

by T. Curtis

Overview

Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy of drawing the audience into visceral identification with them and thus forestalling stereotypes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349491636
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/18/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tracy Curtis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Whose Tools?: Audre Lorde's Narrative Mastery in The Cancer Journals and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 2. Naming All These Women: Jill Nelson's Portrayals in Volunteer Slavery and Straight, No Chaser 3. Born Into This Body: Black Women's Use of Buddhism in Autobiographical Narratives 4. Moving on From Control: Janet Jackson's Lot Improves as She Loses the Uniform 5. Down a Dangerous Cyber Street: Black Women's Online Writing 6. At Arms' Length: The Selfie, Public Personae, and Instagram Use in Young Black Women and Adolescents Conclusion