Wandering - Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Jane Cervenak is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Klappentext Ruminating on the significance of physical and mental roaming in relation to black freedom, Sarah Jane Cervenak emphasizes the power of wandering and daydreaming for those whose mobility is severely constrained. From Sojourner Truth's spiritual and physical journeys to the rambling protagonist of Gayl Jones's novel Mosquito, Cervenak highlights modes of wandering that subvert Enlightenment-based protocols of rationality, composure, and upstanding comportment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Losing Their Heads: Race, Sexuality, and the Perverse Moves of the European Enlightenment 24 2. Crooked Ways and Weak Pens: The Enactment of Enlightenment against Slavery 59 3. Writing under a Spell: Adrienne Kennedy's Theater 95 4. "I Am an African American Novel": Wandering as Noncompliance in Gayl Jones's Mosquito 122 Conclusion. "Before I Was Straightened Out" 145 Notes 173 Bibliography 197 Index 209

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Jane Cervenak
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2014
• EAN: 9780822357155
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5715-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Amerika, Darstellende Künste, Kunst, allgemein, PERFORMING ARTS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Ethnic Issues, ART / American / African American