Imagining the Black Female Body

1. Introduction: Public Property
Carol E. Henderson

2. Racing Sex—Sexing Race
Kaila Adia Story

3. Disembodiments
Ana Nunes

4. Stigmata
Venetria K. Patton

5. “Pull Up to the Bumper”
Maria J. Guzman

6. Images That Sell
Michelle L. Filling

7. Four Women, For Women
Debra A. Powell-Wright

8. The Lower Stratum of History
Julie Burrell

9. Navel-Erasing
Stacie Selmon McCormick

10. ‘If Rigor Is Our Dream’
Zetta Elliott

11. Afterword: “You… You Remind Me of…”
Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Gender Studies, North American Literature