Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S., 1977-
• Lomax, Tamura A.
• Duncan, Carol B. (Carol Bernadette), 1965-

Description

xviii, 277 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Black religion/womanist thought/social justice

Uniform Title

Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.

Subject

• Perry, Tyler > Criticism and interpretation
• African Americans in motion pictures
• African American women in motion pictures
• Christianity in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes a filmography of Tyler Perry's films and television series.

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.

Call Number

Sc D 14-1620

ISBN

• 9781137429551 (alk. paper)
• 1137429550 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2013049309

OCLC

875398575

Title

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

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Black religion/womanist thought/social justice

Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes a filmography of Tyler Perry's films and television series.

Added Author

Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S., 1977- editor.

Lomax, Tamura A., editor.

Duncan, Carol B. (Carol Bernadette), 1965- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 14-1620