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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Crémieux, Anne (Editor), Lemoine, Xavier (Editor), Rocchi, Jean-Paul (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Table of 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.