
A pathbreaking study of African-American women's responses to literature and film.... Bobo focuses on a small group of middle-class African-American women as they process literature (by Terry McMillan, Alice Walker) that addresses their own experiences.... This work should command the attention of all scholars of American popular culture. -- Choice How do black women react as an audience to representations of themselves, and how do their patterns of consumption differ from other groups? Interviews with ordinary black women from many backgrounds uses novels and films to reveal how black female audiences absorb works. -- Midwest Book Review
Page Count:
224
Publication Date:
1995-01-01
ISBN-10:
0231083955
ISBN-13:
9780231083959
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