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Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : black women writing and performing
- Title
- Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : black women writing and performing / Mae G. Henderson.
- Author
- Henderson, Mae,
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 319 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Race and American culture
- Uniform Title
- Race and American culture.
- Subjects
- African American women in literature
- American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century
- American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- African American women entertainers > History > 20th century
- African Americans in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.
- Contents
- 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 nègre: from ethnography to performance -- Dancing diaspora: colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic readings of 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-1454
- ISBN
- 9780195116595
- 0195116593
- LCCN
- 2013039953
- Author
- Henderson, Mae, author.
- Title
- Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : black women writing and performing / Mae G. Henderson.
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Race and American cultureRace and American culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1454