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New Media in Black Women’s Autobiography

Intrepid Embodiment and Narrative Innovation

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  1. Tracy Curtis
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 1-14

  3. Whose Tools? Audre Lorde’s Narrative Mastery in The Cancer Journals and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 15-47

  4. Naming All These Women: Jill Nelson’s Portrayals in Volunteer Slavery and Straight, No Chaser

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 49-86

  5. Born into This Body: Black Women’s Use of Buddhism in Autobiographical Narratives

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 87-109

  6. Moving on from Control: Janet Jackson’s Lot Improves as She Loses the Uniform

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 111-133

  7. Down a Dangerous Cyber Street: Black Women’s Online Writing

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 135-179

  8. At Arm’s Length: The Selfie, Public Personae, and Instagram Use in Young Black Women and Adolescents

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 181-196

  9. Conclusion

    • Tracy Curtis
    Pages 197-200

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 201-226
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About this book

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.

About the author

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

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