Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : Black women writing and performing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Henderson, Mae (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:	Race and American culture.
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Women authors > 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.

Table of 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.