"Daphne A. Brooks is a brilliant, creative, and original thinker. Because Brooks so adeptly crosses the disciplinary boundaries of fields as diverse as performance studies, nineteenth-century American literature, and black studies, "Bodies in Dissent" is an extraordinary model of interdisciplinary scholarship. Brooks's original archival work coupled with her engagement with recent scholarship in cultural studies and studies of the black Atlantic provides us with a beautifully written exploration and theory of black performance practices."--Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of "If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday "…mehr
"Daphne A. Brooks is a brilliant, creative, and original thinker. Because Brooks so adeptly crosses the disciplinary boundaries of fields as diverse as performance studies, nineteenth-century American literature, and black studies, "Bodies in Dissent" is an extraordinary model of interdisciplinary scholarship. Brooks's original archival work coupled with her engagement with recent scholarship in cultural studies and studies of the black Atlantic provides us with a beautifully written exploration and theory of black performance practices."--Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of "If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday "
Acknowledgements ix 1. Our Bodies, Our/Selves 14 Racial Phantasmagoria and Cultural Struggle 2. The Escape Artist 66 Henry Box Brown, Black Abolitionist Performance, and Moving Panoramas of Slavery 3. “The Deeds Done in My Body” 131 Performance, Black(ened) Women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the Racial Imaginary 4. Alien/Nation 207 Re-Imagining the Black Body (Politic) in Williams and Walker’s In Dahomey 5. Divas and Diasporic Consciousness 281 Song, Dance, and New Negro Womanhood in the Veil Epilogue 343 Theatre, Black Women, and Change Notes 349 Bibliography 417 Index 455
Acknowledgements ix 1. Our Bodies, Our/Selves 14 Racial Phantasmagoria and Cultural Struggle 2. The Escape Artist 66 Henry Box Brown, Black Abolitionist Performance, and Moving Panoramas of Slavery 3. “The Deeds Done in My Body” 131 Performance, Black(ened) Women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the Racial Imaginary 4. Alien/Nation 207 Re-Imagining the Black Body (Politic) in Williams and Walker’s In Dahomey 5. Divas and Diasporic Consciousness 281 Song, Dance, and New Negro Womanhood in the Veil Epilogue 343 Theatre, Black Women, and Change Notes 349 Bibliography 417 Index 455
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