Acknowledgments

Foreword: Eccentric Bodies

Carla L. Peterson

Introduction

Michael Bennett

Vanessa D. Dickerson

Part I Covering/Uncovering

Frances Ellen Watkins Sings the Body Electric

Michael Bennett

``The Deeds Done in My Body'': Black Feminist Theory, Performance, and the Truth about Adah Isaacs Menken

Daphne A. Brooks

The Flower of Black Female Sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona

Dorri Rabung Beam

Shopping to Pass, Passing to Shop: Bodily Self-Fashioning in the Fiction of Nella Larsen

Meredith Goldsmith

Part II Discovering

Re-locating the Black Female Subject: The Landscape of the Body in the Poems of Lucille Clifton

Ajuan Maria Mange

Body Language: The Black Female Body and the Word in Suzan-Lori Parks's The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World

Yvette Louis

Detecting Bodies: Barbara Neely's Domestic Sleuth and the Trope of the (In)visible Woman

Doris Witt

Summoning SomeBody: The Flesh Made Word in Toni Morrison's Fiction

Vanessa D. Dickerson

Part III Recovering

On Being a Fat Black Girl in a Fat-Hating Culture

Margaret K. Bass

Body and Soul: Identifying (with) the Black Lesbian Body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon Woman

Mark Winokur

Pumping Iron with Resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious Body

Jacqueline E. Brady

Wearing Your Race Wrong: Hair, Drama, and a Politics of Representation for African American Women at Play on a Battlefield

Noliwe Rooks

Bill Gaskins

Afterword: Recovery Missions: Imaging the Body Ideals

Deborah E. McDowell

Notes on Contributors

Index