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Author:

Henderson, Mae, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
African American women entertainers--History--20th century.
African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.
African Americans in literature
African American women in literature.
African American women entertainers.
African American women in literature.
African American women--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
American fiction.
American fiction--African American authors.
American fiction--Women authors.
Frauenroman.
Performance.
Literaturtheorie.
Schwarze.
USA.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Series:

Race and American culture

ISBN:

0195116593
9780195116595

OCLC:

(OCoLC)866857453

LCCN:

2013039953

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)