Appropriating Blackness - Performance and the Politics of Authenticity

A consideration of the performance of Blackness and race in general, in relation to sexuality and critiques of authenticity.

Sommario

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction

"Blackness" and Authenticity: What's Performance Got to Do with It? 1

1. The Pot is Brewing: Marlon Riggs's Black Is . . . Black Ain't 17

2. Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture 48

3. Mother Knows Best: Blackness and Transgressive Domestic Space 76

4. "Nevah Had uh Cross Word": Mammy and the Trope of Black Womanhood 104

5. Sounds of Blackness Down Under: The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation 160

6. Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom 219

Appendix A Mary Rhyne's Narrative 257

Appendix B Interview with Mrs. Smith 311

Notes 315

Bibliography 345

Index 361

Info autore

E. Patrick Johnson is a performance artist and Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.

Riassunto

Examines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within and outside African American culture. This title develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity trope - avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellant, fixed and malleable.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: E. Patrickjohnson, Johnson, E Patrick Johnson, E. Patrick Johnson
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.08.2003
• EAN: 9780822331544
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3154-4
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Peso: 647 g
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Afrika, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Regionalstudien