Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora

Deploying the trope of 'speaking in tongues' to theorise the multivocality of black women's writing, based on the reconstruction of a fundamentally spiritual practice as critical concept, Mae G. Henderson also enlists a second trope, 'dancing diaspora', to theorise the narrativity of black women's dance, based on the notions of 'performing testimony' and 'critical witnessing'. Together, these tropes are meant to signify a tradition of black women writing and performing, a tradition privileging the pre-eminence of voice and narration, along with the roles of listening and witnessing.

שנה

2014

שפה

English

הוצאה

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

מהדורות

1

עמודים

320

ISBN

9780195116595

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata