Black Feminist Cultural Criticism
KeyWorks in Cultural Studies
1. Auflage Januar 2001
364 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22240-8
John Wiley & Sons
Black Feminist Cultural Criticism is the first comprehensive analysis of the full range of Black women's creative achievements. In this outsdanding collection, writers and scholars in literature, film, television, theatre, music, art, material culture, and other cultural forms explicate Black women's artistry within the context of an activist framework. The contributors are concerned with the politics of cultural production and the ways in which Black women have confronted institutional and social barriers.
Preface: Bearing Witness.
Part I: Foundations.
Part II: The Moving Image.
Part III: Art.
Part IV: Music and Spoken Word.
Part V: Material Culture.
Contributors.
Media Resources Directory of Distributors.
Bibliography.
Index.
Part I: Foundations.
Part II: The Moving Image.
Part III: Art.
Part IV: Music and Spoken Word.
Part V: Material Culture.
Contributors.
Media Resources Directory of Distributors.
Bibliography.
Index.
"Jacqueline Bobo helps us to see afresh the conscious creativity
underlying Black women's cultural productions. What we have here is
not so much 'criticism' as a reframed revelation." Akasha Gloria
Hull, University of California, Santa Cruz.
"Professor Bobo's text consist of seminal sources on Black women
and Black feminist thought that will quicken and enliven
contemporary discourse. It is an important work." Patrick
Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
underlying Black women's cultural productions. What we have here is
not so much 'criticism' as a reframed revelation." Akasha Gloria
Hull, University of California, Santa Cruz.
"Professor Bobo's text consist of seminal sources on Black women
and Black feminist thought that will quicken and enliven
contemporary discourse. It is an important work." Patrick
Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and is author of Black Women as Cultural Readers (1995) and editor of Black Women Film and Video Artists (1998). Her areas of research focus on Black women as producers, audience members, and critics of cultural forms.
