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UNINA9910154329403321 |
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Autore |
Henderson Mae |
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Titolo |
Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : black women writing and performing |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Race and American culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - History and criticism - African American authors - 20th century |
American fiction - History and criticism - Women authors - 20th century |
American fiction - History and criticism - 20th century |
African American women entertainers - History |
African American women - Intellectual life |
African Americans in literature |
African American women in literature |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
American Literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Alice Walker's The color purple: revisions and redefinitions -- (W)riting the work and working the rites -- Speaking in tongues: dialectics, dialogics, and the black woman writer's literary tradition -- Toni Morrison's Beloved: re-membering the body as historical text -- The stories of (O)Dessa: stories of complicity and resistance -- "Seen but not heard": a poetics of Afro-American women's writing -- Gayl Jones's White rat: speaking silence/silencing speech -- State of the art: black feminist theory -- What it means to teach the other when the other is the self -- Authors and authorities. Nella Larsen's Passing: passing, performance, and (post)modernism -- Josephine Baker and La revue nè€gre: from ethnography to performance -- Dancing diaspora: colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic readings of |
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Josephine Baker as dancer and performance artist -- About face, or, what is this "back" in b(l)ack popular culture?: from Venus Hottentot to Video Hottie -- In retrospect. Sherley Anne Williams: "someone sweet angel chile" -- Bebe Moore Campbell: literature as equipment for living. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Deploying the trope of 'speaking in tongues' to theorise the multivocality of black women's writing, based on the reconstruction of a fundamentally spiritual practice as critical concept, Mae G. Henderson also enlists a second trope, 'dancing diaspora', to theorise the narrativity of black women's dance, based on the notions of 'performing testimony' and 'critical witnessing'. Together, these tropes are meant to signify a tradition of black women writing and performing, a tradition privileging the pre-eminence of voice and narration, along with the roles of listening and witnessing. |
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