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Zusatztext Speaking in Tongues is an important volume as a deeper literary-historical view into African-American women's writing Informationen zum Autor Mae G. Henderson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is editor of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (2005), Borders, Boundaries and Frames (1995), and co-editor (with John Blassingame) of the five-volume Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals: An Annotated Index of Letters, 1817-1871 (1980). Klappentext Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora theorizes the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women. Zusammenfassung Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora theorizes the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Introduction 1. Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Revisions and Redefinitions 2. (W)Riting The Work and Working the Rites 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. State of the Art: Black Feminist Theory 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 Nègre: 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(l)ack Popular Culture?: From Venus Hottentot to Video Hottie IN RETROSPECT 15. Sherley Anne Williams: "Someone Sweet Angel Chile" 16. Bebe Moore Campbell: "Literature as Equipment for Living" Bibliography Index ...
