New Media In Black Womens Autobiography

Download or read book New Media in Black Women’s Autobiography written by T. Curtis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy of drawing the audience into visceral identification with them and thus forestalling stereotypes.