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Understanding blackness through performance : contemporary arts and the representation of identity

Title: Understanding blackness through performance : contemporary arts and the representation of identity / edited by Anne Crémieux, Xavier Lemoine, and Jean-Paul Rocchi.
Publication: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description

vi, 282 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Black beings, black embodyings: notes on contemporary artistic performances and their cultural interpretations / Jean-Paul Rocchi with Anne Crémieux and Xavier Lemoine -- Black being, black embodying: the power of auto-ethnography. Each taking risk, performing self: theorizing (dis)narratives / Myron Beasley -- Transformative womanist rhetorical strategies: contextualizing discourse and the performance of black bodies of desire / Toniesha L. Taylor -- "Is anybody walkin"?: the black body on the runway as a performance of the politics of desire / Gayle Baldwin -- Shattered frames and the onlooker: strategies and significations. Transgressive (re)presentations: black women, vaudeville and the politics of performance in early trans-Atlantic theatre/ Zakiya R. Adair -- Kara Walker's War on racism: mining (mis)representations of blackness / Vanina Gere -- Between Mumblecore and post-black Aesthetics: Barry Jenkins's Medicine for melancholy / Simon Dickel -- From book to film: desire in Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009), adapted from Push by Sapphire (1995) / Anne Crémieux -- Through performance: desire and the black subject. Black queer studies, freedom and other human possibilities / Rinaldo Walcott -- About face, or, what is this "back" in b(l)ack popular culture?: from Venus Hottentot to video hottie / Mae G. Henderson -- Margin me: intentional marginality in the queered borderlands of hiphop / Stephany Spaulding -- Shifting paradigms of identities. Sculpting black queer bodies and desires: the case of Richmond Barth / James Smalls -- I am not a race man: racial uplift and the post-black aesthetic in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier / Kristin Leigh Moriah -- Embodying hybridity: Anna Deavere Smith's identity cross-overs / Xavier Lemoine.

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Sc D 16-1019

ISBN

9781137325075 (alk. paper)
1137325070 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2013019245

OCLC

846912088

Title

Understanding blackness through performance : contemporary arts and the representation of identity / edited by Anne Crémieux, Xavier Lemoine, and Jean-Paul Rocchi.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Crémieux, Anne, editor.

Lemoine, Xavier, editor.

Rocchi, Jean-Paul, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc D 16-1019

MWET 14-377

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