Staging Black Fugitivity
Title | Staging Black Fugitivity PDF eBook |
Author | Stacie Selmon McCormick |
Publisher | Black Performance and Cultural |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2019-09-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780814255445 |
Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, of the realities of racial progress, and of black subjectivity.
Theatrical Jazz
Title | Theatrical Jazz PDF eBook |
Author | Omi Osun Joni L. Jones |
Publisher | Black Performance and Cultural |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-01-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780814252079 |
The first full-length study of the theatrical jazz aesthetic, that draws on the jazz principles of ensemble--the break, the bridge, and the blue note.
The Captive Stage
Title | The Captive Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Jones |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2014-07-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0472052268 |
A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War
Reimagining the Middle Passage
Title | Reimagining the Middle Passage PDF eBook |
Author | Tara T. Green |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780814213650 |
Examines how contemporary Black artists envision the Middle Passage as an original site of social death and a space of potential rebirth.
Black on Both Sides
Title | Black on Both Sides PDF eBook |
Author | C. Riley Snorton |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2017-12-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1452955859 |
Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the “father of American gynecology,” to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of “cross dressing” and canonical black literary works that express black men’s access to the “female within,” Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don’t Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.
The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature
Title | The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Paula von Gleich |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2022-03-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110761033 |
This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.
Sites of Slavery
Title | Sites of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Salamishah Tillet |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2012-07-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822352613 |
In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.