Saints, sinners, saviors

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Black Female Body: Seeing, Believing, -- and Perpetuating Popular and Literary Images -- Chapter 2 A Raisin in the Sun -- The Strong Black Woman as Acceptable Tyrant -- Chapter 3 Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery -- I. Even Parody: Ishmael Reed and Maamy Barracuda -- Chapter 4 Strength and the Battle Ground of Slavery -- II. Survival Beyond Survival: -- The Price of Strength in Beloved -- Chapter 5 Commanding the Universe -- I. More Than Witch: Barbaras Minnie Ransom -- I. Tough Enough to Kill, Tough Enough -- to Transcend Death: J i Califni Coopers Clora -- C hapter 6 Strength as Disease Bordering on Evil -- Dorothy West's Cleo Judson -- Chapter 7 The Stubbornness of Tradition -- Do What Big Mama Sez: Ernest J. Gainess -- A Lesson Befoe Dying -- II. New Territory, No Change: Pearl Clcage's Fyin Wst -- Chapter 8: Balance? -- Octavia E. Butle's Parable of the Sower -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Can this Mold be Broken? -- Notes -- Works Cited or Consulted -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-208) and index.