Sapphire's Literary Breakthrough

Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, Environmental Justice Perspectives
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-28221-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lester, Neal A

Myles, Lynette D

McNeil, E.

Fulton, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art PART I: TRANSFORMATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS 1. Sapphire's PUSH: Locating Safe Sites for Writing and Personal Transformation; Lynette D. Myles 2. 'Bombs Cost More than Welfare': Rethinking 'Responsibility' in Sapphire's PUSH; Toni Fellela 3. Multiple Oppressions, 'Multiple Consciousness,' and the Spirit of Harriet Tubman in Sapphire's PUSH; Barbara McCaskill PART II: BODY AND PLACE 4. 'Spiky Green Life': Environmental Justice Themes in Sapphire's PUSH; Joni Adamson 5. Un-'Freak'ing Black Female Self: Grotesque-Erotic Agency and Ecofeminist Unity in Sapphire's PUSH; Elizabeth McNeil 6. Sapphire's PUSH for Erotic Literacy and Black Girl Sexual Agency; L. H. Stallings 7. Awakening to Self-Love in PUSH: Understanding the Significance of Sapphire's Harlem; Wilfred D. Samuels PART III: PEDAGOGY AND THE ACADEMY 8. Looking for 'the Alternative[s]': Locating Sapphire's PUSH in African American Literary Tradition through Literacy and Orality; DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor 9. Deconstructing the 'Pedagogy of Abuse': Teaching Child Sexual Abuse Narratives; Elizabeth McNeil 10. 'Rock the Motherfucking House': Guiding a Study of Sapphire's PUSH; Neal A. Lester 11. Why does Precious have to Lighten Up or Shuffle? Teaching with Lee Daniels's 'Adaptation'; Christopher Burrell and James Wermers PART IV: ENGAGING THE WORK, ENGAGING THE WRITER 12. PUSH ing to Precious: A Compilation and Annotation of Works by and about Sapphire; Eric Parks

Über Autor(innen)

DoVeanna S. Fulton is Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama.