Exorcising Blackness
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Exorcising Blackness
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Author : Trudier Harris
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1984-01-22
Exorcising Blackness written by Trudier Harris and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. Black writers have graphically portrayed such tragic incidents in their writings. In doing so, they seem to be acting out a communal role--a perpetuation of an oral tradition bent on the survival of the race. Exorcising Blackness demonstrates that the closeness and intensity of black people's historical experiences sometimes overshadows, frequently infuses and enhances, and definitely makes richer in texture the art of black writers. By reviewing the historical and literary interconnections of the rituals of exorcism, Harris opens up the hidden psyche--the soul--of black American writers.
Remembering Esperanza
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Author : Mark Lewis Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2006-09-01
Remembering Esperanza written by Mark Lewis Taylor and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with Religion categories.
Remembering Esperanza has been acclaimed as this generation's most important synthesis of critical theory and Christian theology. Taylor offers North American models of a new theology that serves an informed, critical transformative praxis of resistance to sexism, classism, racism. Taylor's work forges a vital link to an engaged Christianity and the Christ who is its source.
Charisma And The Fictions Of Black Leadership
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Author : Erica Renee Edwards
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2012
Charisma And The Fictions Of Black Leadership written by Erica Renee Edwards and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present
Black Women Playwrights
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Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
Black Women Playwrights written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public discourse, and as explorations of issues of African American identity. Essays explore the themes of sexuality, agency, anger, and self-concept in the plays of African American Women.
Black Performance Theory
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Author : Thomas F. DeFrantz
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-14
Black Performance Theory written by Thomas F. DeFrantz and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-14 with Social Science categories.
Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance. They examine the work of contemporary choreographers Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson, the ways that African American playwrights translated the theatricality of lynching to the stage, the ecstatic music of Little Richard, and Michael Jackson's performance in the documentary This Is It. The collection includes several essays that exemplify the performative capacity of writing, as well as discussion of a project that re-creates seminal hip-hop album covers through tableaux vivants. Whether deliberating on the tragic mulatta, the trickster figure Anansi, or the sonic futurism of Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy, the essays in this collection signal the vast untapped critical and creative resources of black performance theory. Contributors. Melissa Blanco Borelli, Daphne A. Brooks, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Nadine George-Graves, Anita Gonzalez, Rickerby Hinds, Jason King, D. Soyini Madison, Koritha Mitchell, Tavia Nyong'o, Carl Paris, Anna B. Scott, Wendy S. Walters, Hershini Bhana Young
The Color Of Crime
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Author : Katheryn Russell-Brown
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1999-09
The Color Of Crime written by Katheryn Russell-Brown and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09 with Social Science categories.
As if crime and race in the US were not volatile enough issues independently, there is their explosive interface. This is the territory staked out by Russell (criminology and criminal justice, U. of Maryland), who probes racial stereotypes (some perpetuated by "scientific racism"), the hoaxes they have spawned, differing views of police actions by race, and affirmative race law. A public-police contact survey and case summaries of recent racial hoaxes are appended. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Body Politic
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Author : Catherine A. Holland
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
The Body Politic written by Catherine A. Holland and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Political Science categories.
This work advances an original thesis that challenges the dominant schools of thought concerning the liberal tradition in the US.
The Concise Oxford Companion To African American Literature
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Author : William L. Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2001-02-15
The Concise Oxford Companion To African American Literature written by William L. Andrews and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
American Anatomies
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Author : Robyn Wiegman
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1995
American Anatomies written by Robyn Wiegman and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Social Science categories.
In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary clichés about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliché in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her "feminist disloyalty," she turns a critical, even skeptical, eye on current debates about multiculturalism and "difference" while simultaneously exposing the many ways in which white racial supremacy has been reconfigured since the institutional demise of segregation. Most of all, she examines the hypocrisy and contradictoriness of over a century of narratives that posit Anglo-Americans as heroic agents of racism's decline. Whether assessing Uncle Tom's Cabin, lynching, Leslie Fiedler's racialist mapping of the American novel, the Black Power movement of the 60s, 80s buddy films, or the novels of Richard Wright and Toni Morrison, Wiegman unflinchingly confronts the paradoxes of both racism and antiracist agendas, including those advanced from a feminist perspective. American Anatomies takes the long view: What epistemological frameworks allowed the West, from the Renaissance forward, to schematize racial and gender differences and to create social hierarchies based on these differences? How have those epistemological regimes changed--and not changed--over time? Where are we now? With painstaking care, political passion, and intellectual daring, Wiegman analyzes the biological and cultural bases of racial and gender bias in order to reinvigorate the discussion of identity politics. She concludes that, for very different reasons, identity proves to be dangerous to minority and majority alike.
Imprisoned In A Luminous Glare
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Author : Leigh Raiford
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2011
Imprisoned In A Luminous Glare written by Leigh Raiford and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years activists in the black freedom struggle have used photographic imagery both to gain political recognition and to develop a different visual vocabulary abou