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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.
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.