Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Disrupting Dissemblance
1 “New World Black and New World Woman”: Or, Beyond the Classical Black Female Script
2 Toward an Aesthetic of Transgression: Ann Allen Shockley’s Loving Her and the Politics of Same-Gender Loving
3 Negotiating Cultural Politics
4 “That Way Lies Madness”: Sexuality, Violent Excess, and Perverse Desire
5 “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”: Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place
Conclusion: “Without Fear of Reprisals”: Representation in the Age of Michelle Obama
Notes
Bibliography
Index