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001 2013039953
003 DLC
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008 131223s2014 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013039953
020 $a9780195116595
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
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043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS374.N4$bH47 2014
082 00 $a810.9/928708996073$223
100 1 $aHenderson, Mae.
245 10 $aSpeaking in tongues and dancing diaspora :$bblack women writing and performing /$cMae G. Henderson.
264 1 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2014.
300 $axiii, 319 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican American women entertainers$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican American women in literature.