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2015

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Rebecca Wanzo

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2015

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

11 mai 2015

EAN13

9781438428840

Langue

English

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Why do some stories of lost white girls garner national media headlines, while others missing remain unknown to the general public? What makes a suffering person legible as a legitimate victim in U.S. culture? In The Suffering Will Not Be Televised, Rebecca Wanzo uses African American women as a case study to explore the conventions of sentimental political storytelling—the cultural practices that make the suffering of some legible while obscuring other kinds of suffering. Through an examination of memoirs, news media, film, and television, Wanzo's analysis reveals historical and contemporary tendencies to conflate differences between different kinds of suffering, to construct suffering hierarchies, and to treat wounds inflicted by the state as best healed through therapeutic, interpersonal interaction. Wanzo's focus on situations as varied as disparities in child abduction coverage, pain experienced in medical settings, sexual violence, and treatment of prisoners of war illuminates how widely and deeply these conventions function within U.S. culture.

"Tracing the invisibility of the suffering of African American women across media, The Suffering Will Not Be Televised offers an important analysis of the many ways in which African American women's experiences have been excluded from narratives about social violence and victimization. Wanzo's book serves as a reminder about the necessity of considering gender and race relationally for women's studies, cultural studies, and studies of crime, media, and culture." — Carol A. Stabile, author of White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in U.S. Culture
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Saving Shoshana

1. Beyond Uncle Tom: A Genealogy of Sentimental Political Storytelling

2. Incidents in the Life of a (Volunteer) Slave Girl: The Specter of Slavery and Escapes from History

3. The Reading Cure: Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, and Sentimental Identification

4. Salvation in His Arms? Rape, Race, and Intimacy’s Salve

5. In the Shadow of Anarcha: Race, Pain, and Medical Storytelling

6. The Abduction Will Not Be Televised: Suffering Hierarchies, Simple Stories, and the Logic of Child Protection in the United States

Coda: Lifetime, Anyone? A Meditation on Victims

Notes
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

11 mai 2015

EAN13

9781438428840

Langue

English

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The Suffering Will Not Be Televised

African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling

REBECCA WANZO

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Wanzo, Rebecca Ann, 1975– The suffering will not be televised : African American women and sentimental political storytelling / Rebecca Wanzo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4384-2883-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4384-2882-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. African American women—Social conditions. 2. African American women—Political activity. 3. Women in mass media. 4. Mass media and women. I. Title.

E185.86.W355 2009 305.48'896073—dc22

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2. Incidents in the Life of a (Volunteer) Slave Girl: The Specter of Slavery and Escapes from History

3. The Reading Cure: Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, and Sentimental Identiﬁcation

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Coda: Lifetime, Anyone? A Meditation on Victims

6. The Abduction Will Not Be Televised: Suffering Hierarchies, Simple Stories, and the Logic of Child Protection in the United States 185

1. Beyond Uncle Tom: A Genealogy of Sentimental Political Storytelling

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments

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Contents

Introduction: Saving Shoshana

4. Salvation in His Arms? Rape, Race, and Intimacy’s Salve

Index

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5. In the Shadow of Anarcha: Race, Pain, and Medical Storytelling

Notes

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Illustrations

Figure 1. Jessica Lynch speaking after returning home. Courtesy of AP Images.

Figure 2. Shoshana Johnson, the ﬁrst African American female POW, was initially discussed in relationship to the other soldiers in her unit.Courtesy of AP Images.

Figure 3. The tragically ironic and ubiquitous picture of Hurricane Katrina survivor Milvertha Hendricks. Courtesy of AP Images.

Figure 4. Christine Thayer embraces Ofﬁcer Ryan inCrash. Courtesy of Photofest.

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