African Americans and the Culture of Pain

by Debra Walker King

In this compelling new study, 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. King's primary hypothesis is that, in the United States, black experience of the body in pain is as much a construction of social, ethical, and economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926815
• ISBN13: 9780813926810
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"