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How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, wh
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Understanding Blackness through Performance
10.1057/9781137313805 - Understanding Blackness through Performance, Edited by Anne Cremieux, Xavier Lemoine and Jean-Paul Rocchi
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10.1057/9781137313805 - Understanding Blackness through Performance, Edited by Anne Cremieux, Xavier Lemoine and Jean-Paul Rocchi
Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity Edited by
Anne Crémieux, Xavier Lemoine, and Jean-Paul Rocchi
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Understanding Blackness through Performance
10.1057/9781137313805 - Understanding Blackness through Performance, Edited by Anne Cremieux, Xavier Lemoine and Jean-Paul Rocchi
UNDERSTANDING BLACKNESS THROUGH PERFORMANCE
Copyright © Anne Crémieux, Xavier Lemoine, and Jean-Paul Rocchi, 2013. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–32507–5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Understanding blackness through performance : contemporary arts and the representation of identity / edited by Anne Crémieux, Xavier Lemoine, and Jean-Paul Rocchi. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1–137–32507–5 (alk. paper) 1. Blacks in the performing arts. 2. Blacks—Race identity. 3. Race awareness. I. Crémieux, Anne editor of compilation. II. Lemoine, Xavier editor of compilation. III. Rocchi, Jean-Paul editor of compilation. PN1590.B53U53 2013 792.089⬘96073—dc23
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Introduction Black Beings, Black Embodyings: Notes on Contemporary Artistic Performances and Their Cultural Interpretations Jean-Paul Rocchi with Anne Cré mieux and Xavier Lemoine
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Part I Black Being, Black Embodying: The Power of Auto-ethnography 1
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Each Taking Risk, Performing Self: Theorizing (Dis)Narratives Myron Beasley Transformative Womanist Rhetorical
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