The Souths in her : Black women writers and choreographers and the poetics of transmutation /
""Since the Middle Passage, the intellectual and physical freedom of Black women in the United States and the Caribbean has been constrained. In the face of this, Black women writers, artists, and performers have challenged silencing narrative frames by drawing on the traditions and artist...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2026]
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| Series: | Black lives in the diaspora.
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| Summary: | ""Since the Middle Passage, the intellectual and physical freedom of Black women in the United States and the Caribbean has been constrained. In the face of this, Black women writers, artists, and performers have challenged silencing narrative frames by drawing on the traditions and artistic visions coming out of multiple Souths (the Southern US and Caribbean) as well as Africa. These interactions, whether physical, ideological, or imaginary, have played a key role in developing an alternative intellectual and political tradition drawn on by Black women writers, artists, and dancers. In The Souths in Her , a phrase borrowed from Ntozake Shange, Johnson examines the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Maryse Conde, Jamaica Kincaid, Kara Walker, and others to illustrate the multiple ways that twentieth-century Black women artists make singular contributions to Black liberation movements. In studying the violent enclosures routinely inflicted upon Black women alongside their expressive innovations, a transmuted ""South"" emerges: a blueprint of techniques for weaving liberatory works. The women featured in this book emerge with a transformed relationship to the enclosing narrative frames imposed upon them, and with reconceptualized movement and expressive vocabularies informed by the lived experiences and submerged histories of women across the Africana southern world.""-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231219679 0231219679 9780231219686 0231219687 |