Invisibility Blues : From Pop to Theory and Back Again

by WALLACE, MICHELEDAVIS, MIKE

• ISBN13: 9781844672868
• ISBN10: 1844672867
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

First published in 1990, Michele Wallace's Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace's considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Wallace addresses the tensions between race, gender, and society, bringing them into the open with a singular mix of literary virtuosity and scholarly rigor.With an updated introduction, this new edition of Invisibility Blues challenges and informs with the plain-spoken truth that has made it an acknowledged classic.

Table of Contents

Negative/Positive Images	p. 1
Black Feminism/Autobiography
Memories of a 60s Girlhood: The Harlem I Love	p. 13
Anger in Isolation: A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood	p. 18
Baby Faith	p. 26
For the Women's House	p. 34
A Women's Prison and The Movement	p. 44
The Dah Principle: to be Continued	p. 53
Homelessness is Where the Heart Is	p. 58
Pop
Blues for Mr Spielberg	p. 67
Michael Jackson, Black Modernisms and 'The Ecstasy of Communication'	p. 77
Invisibility Blues	p. 91
Spike Lee and Black Women	p. 100
Doing the Right Thing	p. 107
Entertainment Tomorrow	p. 111
Mississippi Burning and Bird	p. 123
Culture/History
For Colored Girls, the Rainbow is Not Enough	p. 129
Slaves of History	p. 137
Ishmael Reed's Female Troubles	p. 146
Wilma Mankiller: Profile	p. 155
Twenty Years Later	p. 159
Who Owns Zora Neale Hurston? Critics Carve Up the Legend	p. 172
Reading 1968: The Great American Whitewash	p. 187
Tim Rollins and KOS: The Amerika Series	p. 199
Theory
Variations on Negation and the Heresy of Black Feminist Creativity	p. 213
Negative Images: Towards a Black Feminist Cultural Criticism	p. 241
Index	p. 257
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