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African American playwright, actor, television producer and filmmaker Tyler Perry is an American cultural phenomenon. Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of films, plays, and television series that center storylines about black women, black communities and black religion. The success of a Tyler Perry Production, coupled with Perry\u2019s participation in a range of media and in multiple roles as creator and actor, position him as a significant site of black religious and cultural expression, and thus critical inquiry and reflection. Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry\u2019s Productions examines Perry\u2019s works from interdisciplinary perspectives and provides a necessary response to Perry\u2019s current prominence regarding black representation, black religion and black cultural production.<\/span><\/span>

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<\/span><\/span>Foreword; Emilie M. Townes<\/span>
Introduction; LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Tamura Lomax, and Carol B. Duncan<\/span>

PART I: FILMOGRAPHY<\/span>

PART II: THEOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY, AND BLACK POPULAR RELIGIOUS IMAGINATIONS<\/span>
1. Tyler Perry Reads Scripture; Nyasha Junior\u00a0<\/span>
2. Signifying Love and Embodied Relationality: Towards a Womanist Theological Anthropology; Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan<\/span>
3. Jesus Will Fix It, After While: The Purpose and Role of Gospel Music in Tyler Perry Productions; Lisa Allen-McLaurin<\/span>
4. Screening God; Andrea C. White<\/span>

PART III: THEORIZING INTERSECTING IDENTITIES AND (RE)ENVISIONING BLACK WOMANHOOD<\/span>
5. \u2018A People That Would Take Care of Ourselves\u2019: Tyler Perry\u2019s Vision of Community and Gender Relations; Yolande M.S. Tomlinson<\/span>
6. \u2018It aint where you comin\u2019 from, honey:\u2019 Class, Social Mobility and Marriage in Tyler Perry\u2019s Madea\u2019s Family Reunion; Carol B. Duncan\u00a0<\/span>
7. Mad Black Bitches and Lady-like Saints: Representations of African American Women in Tyler Perry Films; Tamura A. Lomax<\/span>
8. (Re)Mediating Black Womanhood: Tyler Perry, Black Feminist Cultural Criticism and the Politics of Appropriation; Whitney Peoples<\/span>

PART IV: THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE<\/span>
9. Pause, Auntie Momma!: Reading Religion in Tyler Perry\u2019s Fat Drag; LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant<\/span>
10. Madea vs. Medea: Agape, and the Militarist or Murderous Maternal; Joy James\u00a0<\/span>

PART V: BLACK WOMEN AS RELIGIO-CULTURAL CAPITAL<\/span>
11. Tyler Perry and the (Mis)Representation of Religious Morality; Terrion L. Williamson<\/span>
12. Talking Back and Taking My \u2018Amens\u2019 with Me: Tyler Perry and the Narrative Colonization of Black Women\u2019s Stories; Brittney Cooper<\/span>
13. Do You Want to Be Well?: The Gospel Play, Womanist Theology, and Tyler Perry\u2019s Artistic Project; Robert J. Patterson<\/span>

Afterword; T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting<\/span><\/span>

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