Black Women as Cultural Readers - Softcover

Bobo, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231083955 ISBN 13: 9780231083959

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Bobo demonstrates that African-American women, as a separate interpretive community, view cultural products in a unique way. In interviews with black women, she examines their specific responses as spectators and consumers of films and novels, including Waiting to Exhale, The Color Purple, and Daughters of the Dust.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacqueline Bobo is Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is editor of the anthology, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism: Classic Readings (Blackwell Publishers, January 2001) and of Black Women Film and Video Artists (Routledge, 1998).

Review:

"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"

"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

"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"

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0231083955
• ISBN 13: 9780231083959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224