Съдържание:
  • Introduction:
  • Bearing witness: reading the narrative of the African American body
  • The call:
  • Imag(in)ing the body wounded: bodily inscriptions and initiation rites in America's social discourse
  • Whip-scarred and branded: the ancestors speak on the slave condition
  • The response:
  • Bodies of texts: literal and figurative visions of history in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
  • Dis-membered to re-member: bodies, scars, and ritual in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • "Walking wounded": the urban experience in Ann Petry's The street
  • Fingering the fissures of the black male psyche: Wright and Ellison revisited
  • Awakenings: a personal odyssey.