{"product_id":"refusing-to-be-made-whole-disability-in-black-womens-writing-9781496855046","title":"Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing","description":"In \u003ci\u003eRefusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, author Anna LaQuawn Hinton examines how contemporary Black women writers present becoming disabled as a traumatic and violent experience of Black womanhood. Nevertheless, Black women embrace disabled Black womanhood by turning to Africanist spiritual understandings of wholeness, which view debilitating injury and illness as not only physical but also spiritual, not just an individual problem but a symptom of discord in the community. Black women use these belief systems to reimagine healing in ways that make space for a variety of \u003ci\u003ebodymindspirits\u003c\/i\u003e. Hinton maintains that this is not only a major theme in contemporary Black women's writing but that it also shapes the formal elements characteristic of the Black women's literary tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eRefusing to Be Made Whole\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes texts published after the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing particularly on the late 1970s onward when Black women's writing flourished. Through the lens of writings by authors such as Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Sapphire, and Sarah E. Wright, Hinton addresses prominent critical discourses within Black feminist literary studies. Hinton approaches the intersections of Africanist spirituality, race, gender, class, and disability, conversations about representation, community, motherhood, and sexuality through a Black feminist disability studies framework. \u003ci\u003eRefusing to Be Made Whole \u003c\/i\u003eembraces the complex and multifaceted nature of Black women's writing, arguing that through this collision of race, gender, and spirituality, Black women writers speak healing and wellness into their readers' lives and their own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna LaQuawn Hinton\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of disability studies and Black literature and culture in the English Department at the University of North Texas. She has published in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCLA Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBody \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51213237420306,"sku":"9781496855046","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bfe3c1bc-298b-44a4-abbb-b4ce5d4d5898.jpg?v=1745363943","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/refusing-to-be-made-whole-disability-in-black-womens-writing-9781496855046","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}