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The suffering will not be televised : African American women and sentimental political storytelling
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- Creator
- Rebecca Wanzo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781438428833, 1438428839, 9781438428826, 1438428820
- OCLC
- ocn300277010
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : Saving Shoshana -- Incidents in the life of a (volunteer) slave girl : the specter of slavery and escapes from history -- The reading cure : Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, and sentimental identification -- Salvation in his arms : rape, race, and intimacy's salve -- In the shadow of Anarcha : race, pain, and medical storytelling -- The abduction will not be televised : suffering hierarchies, simple stories, and the logic of child protection in the United States -- Coda : lifetime, anyone? : a meditation on victims