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Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : black women writing and performing / Mae G. Henderson

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Henderson, Mae
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Alice Walker S The Color Purple: Revisions and Redefinitions -- 2.(W)Riting The Work and Working the Rites: Sherley Anne Williams's "Meditations on History" -- 3.Speaking in Tongues: Dialectics, Dialogics, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition -- 4.Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text -- 5.The Stories of (O)Dessa: Stories of Complicity and Resistance -- 6."Seen But Not Heard": A Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing -- 7.Gayl Jones S White Rat: Speaking Silence/Silencing Speech -- 8.The State of Our Art: Black Feminist Theory in the 1990s -- 9.What It Means to Teach the Other When the Other Is the Self -- 10.Authors and Authorities -- 11.Nella Larsen's Passing: Passing, Performance, and (Post)modernism -- 12.Josephine Baker and La Revue Negre: From Ethnography to Performance -- 13.Dancing Diaspora: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Diasporic Readings of Josephine Baker as Dancer and Performance Artist -- 14.About Face, or, What Is This "Back" in B(I)ack Popular Culture?: From Venus Hottentot to Video Hottie -- IN RETROSPECT -- 15.Sherley Anne Williams (1944--1999): "Someone Sweet Angel Chile" -- 16.Bebe Moore Campbell (1950--2006): "Literature as Equipment for Living".
Summary
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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9780199375219 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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