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