BIBFRAME Work

Title

Refusing to be made whole

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Hinton, Anna LaQuawn (author )

Subject

• Spirituality in literature (LCSH)
• Women with disabilities--Violence against (LCSH)
• African American feminists--Attitudes (LCSH)
• Women, Black, in literature--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Minority people with disabilities--Social conditions (LCSH)
• African Americans with disabilities (LCSH)
• African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: PS153.B53 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
• DDC: 820.9/3522 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

In "Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing, 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 bodymindspirits. 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. Refusing to Be Made Whole 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. Refusing to Be Made Whole embraces 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: refusing to be made whole -- Chapter 1: If I am crazy, can I be of sound mind?: Representation, disability, and Black women's novel aesthetic -- Chapter 2: Black community, crip communities of care -- Chapter 3: Cripping motherhood -- Chapter 4: Sexual healing -- Conclusion: towards a crip technoscience of the spirit -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index.

Authorized Access Point

Hinton, Anna LaQuawn. Refusing to be made whole

Geographic Coverage

• United States

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:12:04.731161+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24016789

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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• Description language: eng
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