Bøker av Debra Walker King

Considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.

In this original study, the author seeks out the discourses existing beneath the primary narratives of African-American literary texts by interpreting the significance of certain character names. She explains the interpretative guidelines necessary to read ""deep talk"" in African-American texts.