Bibliograph

Womanist and Black feminist responses to Tyler Perry's productions, edited by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Tamura A. Lomax, and Carol B. Duncan

Type

Label

Womanist and Black feminist responses to Tyler Perry's productions, edited by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Tamura A. Lomax, and Carol B. Duncan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexIncludes a filmography of Tyler Perry's films and television series

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Womanist and Black feminist responses to Tyler Perry's productions

Nature of contents

filmographiesbibliography

Oclc number

875398575

Responsibility statement

edited by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Tamura A. Lomax, and Carol B. Duncan

Series statement

Black religion/womanist thought/social justice

Table Of Contents

Tyler Perry reads Scripture / Nyasha Junior -- Signifying love and embodied relationality: toward a womanist theological anthropology / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan -- Jesus will fix it, after while: the purpose and role of Gospel music in Tyler Perry productions / Lisa M. Allen-McLaurin -- Screening God / Andrea C. White -- "A people that would take care of ourselves": Tyler Perry's vision of community and gender relations / Yolande M. S. Tomlinson -- "It ain't where you comin' from, honey": class, social mobility, and marriage in Tyler Perry's Madea's family reunion / Carol B. Duncan -- Mad Black bitches and ladylike saints: representations of African American womanhood in Tyler Perry films / Tamura A. Lomax -- (Re)mediating Black womanhood: Tyler Perry, Black feminist cultural criticism, and the politics of legitimation / Whitney Peoples -- Pause, Auntie Momma: reading religion in Tyler Perry's Fat drag / LaRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant -- Madea vs. Medea: agape and the militarist or murderous maternal / Joy James -- Tyler Perry and the (mis)representation of religious morality / Terrion L. Williamson -- "Do you want to be well?": the Gospel play, womanist theology, and Tyler Perry's artistic project / Robert J. Patterson -- Talking back and taking my "amens" with me: Tyler Perry and the narrative colonization of Black women's stories / Brittney Cooper -- Afterword / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

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