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Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora
Mae G. Henderson
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Description for Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora
Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora theorizes the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women. Series: Race & American Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 574.
Tropes ranging from Houston Baker's "bluesman," to Henry Louis Gates' "signifyin'" to Geneva Smitherman's "talkin' and testifyin'" to bell hooks' "talking back" to Cheryl Wall's "worrying the line" all affirm the power of sonance and sound in the African American literary tradition. The collection of essays in Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora contributes to this tradition by theorizing the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women. Looking to work by such prominent black female authors as Alice Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Zora Neal Hurston, ... Read more
Tropes ranging from Houston Baker's "bluesman," to Henry Louis Gates' "signifyin'" to Geneva Smitherman's "talkin' and testifyin'" to bell hooks' "talking back" to Cheryl Wall's "worrying the line" all affirm the power of sonance and sound in the African American literary tradition. The collection of essays in Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora contributes to this tradition by theorizing the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women. Looking to work by such prominent black female authors as Alice Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Zora Neal Hurston, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Race & American Culture
Number of Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195116595
SKU
V9780195116595
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About Mae G. Henderson
Mae G. Henderson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is editor of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (2005), Borders, Boundaries and Frames (1995), and co-editor (with John Blassingame) of the five-volume Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals: An Annotated Index of Letters, 1817-1871 (1980).
Reviews for Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora
Mae Henderson's always luminous, often foundational work is a gift to all who study women's writing and African American literature. Fusing beautiful theorizing with insightful close readings, Henderson illuminates Josephine Baker's performances and hip-hop videos as brilliantly as she does the fictions of Hurston, Morrison, and Walker.
Cheryl A. Wall, author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, ... Read more
Cheryl A. Wall, author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, ... Read more