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The Belle Gone Bad

Author : Betina Entzminger
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807128367
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Belle Gone Bad written by Betina Entzminger and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Scarlett O’Hara fluttered her dark lashes, did she threaten only the gentleman in her parlor or the very culture that produced her? Examining the “bad belle” as a recurring character, The Belle Gone Bad finds that white southern women writers from the antebellum period to the present have used treacherous belles to subtly indict their culture from within. Combining the southern ideal of ladyhood with the sexual power of the dark seductress, the bad belle is the perfect figure with which to critique a culture that effectively enslaved both its white and black women. Betina Entzminger traces the development of the bad belle from nineteenth-century domestic novelist E.D.E.N. Southworth to contemporary novelist Kaye Gibbons. Coy and alluring like the traditional southern belle, the bad belle is also manipulative and knowing; the men subject to her cultivated charms often meet disastrous ends. By making the patriarch vulnerable to women who outwardly conform to the limiting conventions of womanhood but inwardly break all the rules, these writers challenged a society that stereotyped black women as promiscuous and forced white women onto pedestals while committing heinous acts in their name. Representations of the bad belle evolved along with southern society, and by the late twentieth century, many women writers expressed emancipation through the literal or figurative destruction of corrupt or would-be belles. The Belle Gone Bad shows that even writers who have been critically dismissed as too domestic or conservative to be innovative did—through the strategy of the bad belle character—challenge southern institutions and conceptions about race, class, and gender. What unites the dangerous belles created by several generations of women writing in the South, old and new, is their liberating potential.

Belle Gone Bad

Author : Sabine Starr
Publisher : eKensington
ISBN 13 : 1601831463
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Belle Gone Bad written by Sabine Starr and published by eKensington. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sabine Starr's books pack a wallop!" —Carolyn Brown A Little Scandal. . . Belle Thompson will do just about anything to bring the murderer of her father and fiancé to justice. Even partner up with Mercy Huntingdon, a notorious artist known more for his scandalous sculptures than his skill with a six-shooter. But Belle and Mercy may have a common enemy, and if posing as his muse—a sensuous lady of the evening—will get Belle her man, the Texas beauty is up to the challenge. . . Might Do A Girl Good. . . Mercy Huntingdon needs Belle Thompson. Not only in his big, brass bed, but by his side as he tracks a kidnapper. Yet once he crosses into outlaw country with the gorgeous bounty hunter, all of his protective instincts go into overdrive—as well as a passion more powerful than the revenge that drives them both. . .. Praise For Sabine Starr "Sabine Starr's books pack a wallop! Featuring a rip-roaring cast of characters and smoking hot romance, they are head butting, heart stopping, sassy and sexy books that come to life in your hands—books that you don't want to end!" —Carolyn Brown, New York Times bestselling author "Starr writes a fun, vivid western romance with entertaining characters." —Publishers Weekly 62,000 Words

Bride Gone Bad

Author : Sabine Starr
Publisher : eKensington
ISBN 13 : 1601831455
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Bride Gone Bad written by Sabine Starr and published by eKensington. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE'S HUNTING FOR GOLD. . . Not many people can keep a secret from Lucky Devereaux. He's a triple threat of outlaw, treasure hunter, and Native American mystic. But something in Tempest Templeton's beautiful, heartbroken eyes intrigues him, and he's determined to unravel the mystery. . . SHE'S HUNTING FOR A MAN. . . Tempest has to remind herself that handsome men like Lucky bring only pain. She learned that when her groom ran off before the wedding night—taking her family's money with him. Now she's hunting him down. But a lady alone in Indian Territory is asking for trouble, and Lucky promises he's just the man to keep her safe and show her everything she's been missing. . . PRAISE FOR SABINE STARR'S LADY GONE BAD "A fun read—Old West style!" –USAToday.com "An exciting read!"— New York Times bestselling author Bobbi Smith "If you're a fan of sexy cowboys, mysterious outlaws, historical settings, and HAWT romance— definitely grab this one up." —JenRen's Review "Readers will enjoy. . .Lady Gone Bad." —Genre Go Round Reviews "This book is perfect for a romance reader." —Nocturne Romance Reads "One of the best historicals of the year!" —Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries & More Review

Lady Gone Bad

Author : Sabine Starr
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0758279205
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Lady Gone Bad written by Sabine Starr and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Woman's Secrets The saloon singer known as Lady Gone Bad is the most drop-dead gorgeous outlaw the West has ever seen. Lady has never met a cowboy she couldn't entice, or a lawman she couldn't outrun. But when Lady tangles with a sexy U.S. Marshall, she's tempted to stick around long enough to watch him lay down the law--in her bed. A Man's Desires U. S. Marshall Rafe Morgan wants to lock up Lady Gone Bad for good--and he won't let his attraction to her slow him down. But when his attempt to bring Lady to justice goes awry, Rafe is nearly hanged--and by dawn, his face is plastered next to hers on every "Wanted" poster in Texas. A Passion Unleashed Now on the run together, Rafe and Lady find themselves in very close quarters--and even more compromising positions. As Lady surrenders to Rafe's touch, she slowly begins to reveal all her secrets--including her real name. Maybe Lady Gone Bad isn't beyond redemption after all. Either way, Rafe is in for one wild ride. . . "An exciting read!" --New York Times bestselling author Bobbi Smith

Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848880448
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Illuminating the Dark Side: Evil, Women and the Feminine written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil. Women. The Feminine. The relationships that bring together these three ideas form the basis for the papers gathered together in this volume. By asking how, why, when, and to what purpose these three terms are often linked serves as the starting point of interrogation for each of the authors here considered.

Belle's Journey

Author : Rob Bierregaard
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163289615X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Belle's Journey written by Rob Bierregaard and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take flight with Belle, an osprey born on Martha's Vineyard as she learns to fly and migrates for the first time to Brazil and back--a journey of more than 8,000 miles. Dr. B. and Dick, two osprey scientists in Massachusetts, observe ospreys and their offspring, tagging one special fledgling with a transmitter to better study migration habits. Follow Belle as she attempts her first flight, conquers her first fishing endeavour, and heads south for her first migration all while her tracking device transmits information about where's she been. Based on information garnered through twenty years of research by the author, Belle's Journey will soar into reader's hearts.

The American Civil War on Film and TV

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498566898
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The American Civil War on Film and TV written by Douglas Brode and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes for cinematic narratives of morality, race, gender, and nation, as well as serving as historical education for a century of Americans. In The American Civil War on Film and TV: Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color, Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller bring together nineteen essays by a diverse array of scholars across the disciplines to explore these issues. The essays included here span a wide range of films, from the silent era to the present day, including Buster Keaton’s The General (1926), Red Badge of Courage (1951), Glory (1989), Gettysburg (1993), and Cold Mountain (2003), as well as television mini-series The Blue and The Gray (1982) and John Jakes’ acclaimed North and South trilogy (1985-86). As an accessible volume to dedicated to a critical conversation about the Civil War on film, The American Civil War on Film and TV will appeal to not only to scholars of film, military history, American history, and cultural history, but to fans of war films and period films, as well.

The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Author : Kirk Curnutt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666909173
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald written by Kirk Curnutt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise explores resonances of "Southernness" in works by American culture’s leading literary couple. At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald dramatized their relationship as a romance of regionalism, as the charming tale of a Northern man wooing a Southern belle. Their writing exposes deeper sectional conflicts, however: from the seemingly unexorcisable fixation with the Civil War and the historical revisionism of the Lost Cause to popular culture’s depiction of the South as an artistically deprived, economically broken backwater, the couple challenged early twentieth-century stereotypes of life below the Mason-Dixon line. From their most famous efforts (The Great Gatsby and Save Me the Waltz) to their more overlooked and obscure (Scott’s 1932 story “Family in the Wind,” Zelda’s “The Iceberg,” published in 1918 before she even met her husband), Scott and Zelda returned obsessively to the challenges of defining Southern identity in a country in which “going south” meant decay and dissolution. Contributors to this volume tackle a range of Southern topics, including belle culture, the picturesque and the Gothic, Confederate commemoration and race relations, and regional reconciliation. As the collection demonstrates, the Fitzgeralds’ fortuitous meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1918 sparked a Southern renascence in miniature.

Voicing the Self

Author : Carmen Rueda Ramos
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8437084040
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Voicing the Self written by Carmen Rueda Ramos and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro analiza la manera con la que Lee Smith ha dado voz a todos los aspectos de su experiencia tanto como mujer-artista que vive en la América contemporánea como nativa de la Appalachia, una región sureña que todavía conserva un fuerte sentimiento de la tradición oral y de vínculos con la comunidad. Smith revisa y altera el lenguaje y los mitos que han condicionado sus búsquedas de la identidad y han silenciado sus voces. Al realizarlo, explora la relación entre el heroísmo femenino y la creatividad de las mujeres como algo distinto a la de los hombres. En su lucha, las heroínas de Smith reflejan el desarrollo personal y artístico de la escritora. La relación conflictiva de sus personajes femeninos con la auto-afirmación y con el mundo de la Appalachia revela los propios sentimientos ambivalentes de Smith hacia el concepto de individualidad y hacia sus raíces culturales.

Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry

Author : Stéphanie Durrans
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858714
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry written by Stéphanie Durrans and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides new insights into the theme of inheritance in American women’s writing, ranging from Emily Dickinson’s appropriation of Shakespeare’s legacy to Meredith Sue Willis’s exploration of the tension between material inheritance and spiritual heritage in the Appalachian context. Using diverse critical and theoretical models, the twelve contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to inheritance in a variety of historical, geographical, and personal contexts, bringing to the fore a number of strategies of resistance and empowerment that have helped women cope with the burden or the lack of any inheritance through the centuries. Grouped into four sections, these essays successively investigate women’s attempts to grapple with the curse of personal or national inheritance, the troubled relationship with the father figure, the classic trope of the haunted, Gothic house, and the plight of more contemporary women writers who have been relegated to the dead zone of American literary inheritance. Of crucial importance for all of these writers is the tension between the home and the land, as well as a questioning of intertextuality as the starting-point for a reconfiguration of the self in its relationship with the past.

The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell

Author : Loraine Despres
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061866512
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell written by Loraine Despres and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle Cantrell felt guilty about killing her husband and she hated that. Feeling guilty, that is. A lady shouldn't do something she's going to feel guilty about later, was a rule Belle kept firmly in mind. So begins The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell, a story of murder, adultery, and regular church attendance, which introduces Belle Cantrell as a beautiful young widow with a rebellious streak, years before she will become grandmother to Sissy LeBlanc, the feisty main character of Loraine Despres's bestselling The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc. The year is 1920, prohibition is in full swing, women are clamoring for the vote, and a narrow-minded intolerance is on the rise. Life isn't easy for an unmarried woman, not in a little town like Gentry, Louisiana, especially after she's sent to jail for swimming in an indecent bathing costume with a group of suffragists. It's not as if Belle doesn't know how to behave. She knows the rules. She keeps the Primer of Propriety firmly in mind. But sometimes -- most of the time -- she has to twist the rules a little, or break them, or give them a permanent kink, because they all say the same thing: "Don't." And a girl has got to live. After a year and a half of mourning, Belle decides to get on with her life and kicks off a season of tumult that will change her and Gentry forever. Sexy, sassy, with laugh-out-loud humor and a cast of zany characters you won't forget, The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell is a big comic love story and a page-turner. But it delves deeper, as Belle struggles to find her moral center and stand up to forces that are determined to destroy the soul of a town and the people she loves.

The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc

Author : Loraine Despres
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780060505882
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc written by Loraine Despres and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering -- half seriously -- if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola. She's been living in stifling old Gentry since the day she was born and trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc since she was only seventeen. In short, she's fed up, restless, and ready for an adventure. Sissy just never imagined temptation would come into her life that breathless summer day as she sat smoking on her porch swing. For although she may have been fixated on the taut muscles of the lineman shimmying down the telephone pole across the street, she hadn't allowed herself to imagine that he'd be none other than her high school sweetheart, Parker Davidson, who left town fourteen years before without so much as a wave good-bye. But suddenly, here he is, leaning in for a kiss that will stir up more excitement than Sissy could ever have imagined...

History vs Hollywood

Author : M J Trow
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399066528
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book History vs Hollywood written by M J Trow and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film studios have been making historical movies now for over a century. In that time, thousands of films have been made covering not just centuries but millennia. Did Neanderthal woman really look like Raquel Welch in her bearskin bikini? Did 6,000 rebellious slaves claim that they were Spartacus? Did Berengaria complain to her husband, Richard the Lionheart, ‘War, war; that’s all you think about, Dick Plantagenet’? Was El Cid strapped to his horse’s saddle to lead his army after he was dead? These aren’t questions of history; they are questions of Hollywood. Charlton Heston was a foot too tall for General Charles Gordon. John Wayne was a tad too American for Genghis Khan. Eric von Stroheim’s bald head was an odd choice for the perfectly hirsute Erwin Rommel. And Warren Beatty and Fay Dunaway were far too gorgeous for bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. Hollywood never gets it right. History and its characters are endlessly complicated, and producers, directors and screenwriters have a simple story to tell. They have a maximum of two hours to explain what happened over weeks or months or years and many of it give it their best shot. Yet for all Hollywood’s shortcomings in recreating the past, it has managed to evoke eras and people long dead in a magical way that has kept millions of us enthralled for generations.

Dear Octopus

Author : Dodie Smith
Publisher : Baker's Plays
ISBN 13 : 9780573010965
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Dear Octopus written by Dodie Smith and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1939 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successfully produced in London and New York. Dear Octopus is the family from which none of its members are either able or quite willing to escape. And on the occasion of a golden wedding anniversary the children and grandchildren gather to reminisce and acquaint each other more fully with their activities. The life of this English family is shown in terms of the chatter of the youngsters, the careers and nursery memories of the middle-aged and the sense of the swift passing of the years, the sweetness of an old nurse, the minor frictions and abiding loyalty of brothers and sisters, the feast-day toast and the benevolent tyranny of the grandmother, Woven throughout the proceedings is a love story between fenny, companion to Mrs. Randolph, and Nicholas Randolph.

Belle

Author : Lesley Pearse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913099824
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Belle written by Lesley Pearse and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping historical saga from the internationally best-selling author Lesley Pearse. London, 1910. Though raised in a brothel, fifteen-year-old Belle is still an innocent, carefree girl. That all changes when she witnesses a murder. After seeing a girl strangled by her client, Belle's life is turned upside down. From the brothel to the streets, Belle is sold into the seedy world of sex trafficking and shipped away to New Orleans where she is made a courtesan. With little autonomy and even less hope, Belle is at the mercy of the men she is forced to entertain. With a broken spirit, dreams of her home and family are all that keep Belle going. But if she were to find her freedom, would she have a home to return to? PRAISE FOR LESLEY PEARSE & BELLE 'An atmospheric cracker with lots of twists' - Woman 'Pearse will pull on your heartstrings with this well-crafted story' - Sun 'Storytelling at its very best' - Daily Mail 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' - Sunday Express 'Glorious, heart-warming' - Woman & Home 'Intrigue, heart-tugging, beautifully written' - Closer 'Characters it is impossible not to care about' - Daily Mail

Being Ugly

Author : Monica Carol Miller
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080716562X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Being Ugly written by Monica Carol Miller and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South, one notion of “being ugly” implies inappropriate or coarse behavior that transgresses social norms of courtesy. While popular stereotypes of the region often highlight southern belles as the epitome of feminine power, women writers from the South frequently stray from this convention and invest their fiction with female protagonists described as ugly or chastised for behaving that way. Through this divergence, “ugly” can be a force for challenging the strictures of normative southern gender roles and marriage economies. In Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion, Monica Carol Miller reveals how authors from Margaret Mitchell to Monique Truong employ “ugly” characters to upend the expectations of patriarchy and open up more possibilities for southern female identity. Previous scholarship often conflates ugliness with such categories as the grotesque, plain, or abject, but Miller disassociates these negative descriptors from a group of characters created by southern women writers. Focusing on how such characters appear prone to rebellious and socially inappropriate behavior, Miller argues that ugliness subverts assumptions about gender by identifying those who are unsuitable for the expected roles of marriage and motherhood. As opposed to familiar courtship and marriage plots, Miller locates in fiction by southern women writers an alternative genealogy, the ugly plot. This narrative tradition highlights female characters whose rebellion offers a space for re-imagining alternative lives and households in opposition to the status quo. Reading works by canonical writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, and Eudora Welty, along with recent texts by contemporary authors like Helen Ellis, Lee Smith, and Jesmyn Ward, Being Ugly offers an important new perspective on how southern women writers confront regressive ideologies that insist upon limited roles for women.

Black Mothers and the National Body Politic

Author : Andrea Powell Wolfe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793631301
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Black Mothers and the National Body Politic written by Andrea Powell Wolfe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mothers and the National Body Politic: The Narrative Positioning of the Black Maternal Body from the Civil War Period through the Present focuses on the struggles and triumphs of black motherhood in six works of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present. Andrea Powell Wolfe examines the functioning of the black maternal body to both define and undermine ideal white womanhood; the physical scarring of the black mother and the reclamation of the black maternal body as a site of subversion and nurturance as well as erotic empowerment; and the construction of oppressive discourses surrounding black female bodies and reproduction and the development of resistance to these types of discourses. These tensions undergird a multifaceted discussion of the narrative positioning of the black maternal body within and in relationship to the national body politic, an inherently exclusionary and restrictive metaphorical entity constructed and socially contracted over time by an already politically empowered citizenry. Ultimately, close analysis of the texts under study suggests that the United States—as a figurative body complete with imagined “parts” that perform separate functions, from intelligence to labor, ingestion to expulsion—has simultaneously used and cast off the black maternal body over the course of centuries.