Gale P. Jackson

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and ACT Like a Woman

Black History and Poetics in Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson â re-membersâ and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781496238894
• ISBN-10: 1496238893
• Artikelnr.: 68459537

Autorenporträt

Gale P. Jackson is a poet, writer, and Africanist scholar. She is a professor of interdisciplinary arts at Goddard College and the author of MeDea and We Stand Our Ground: Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Past and Prologue as Prelude: Eurydice’s Black Flight
1. The Way We Do: An Introductory Mapping
2. Juba Danced: Following a Story in Motion
3. The Ancestors and the Lullaby: Passing It On
4. Put Your Hands on Your Hips: Rites of Passage in Performance
5. Rosy, Possum, Morning Star: Work Songs and the Blues
Coda: Circling Back Around
Notes
Bibliography
Index