Reading, writing, and re-writing : the black body in contemporary African-American literature

Through an examination of three contemporary African-American writers, this thesis seeks to explore the ways the black body is constructed through their negotiating of their own corporeal vulnerability to racial discourse. Turning to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Claudia Rankine’s Citi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Djawoto, Olivia
Other Authors: Kevin Andrew Riordan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73860