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Understanding Blackness through Performance

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Each Taking Risk, Performing Self: Theorizing (Dis) Narratives
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    Chapter 3 Transformative Womanist Rhetorical Strategies: Contextualizing Discourse and the Performance of Black Bodies of Desire
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    Chapter 4 “Is Anybody Walkin’?”: The Black Body on the Runway as a Performance of the Politics of Desire
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    Chapter 5 Transgressive (Re)presentations: Black Women, Vaudeville, and the Politics of Performance in Early Transatlantic Theater
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    Chapter 6 Kara Walker’s War on Racism: Mining (Mis)Representations of Blackness
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    Chapter 7 Between Mumblecore and Post-Black Aesthetics: Barry Jenkins’s Medicine for Melancholy
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    Chapter 8 From Book to Film: Desire in Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009), adapted from Push by Sapphire (1996)
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    Chapter 9 Black Queer Studies, Freedom, and Other Human Possibilities
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    Chapter 10 About Face, or, What Is This “Back” in B(l)ack Popular Culture? From Venus Hottentot to Video Hottie
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    Chapter 11 Margin Me: Intentional Marginality in the Queered Borderlands of Hip-hop
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    Chapter 12 Sculpting Black Queer Bodies and Desires: The Case of Richmond Barthé
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    Chapter 13 I Am Not a Race Man: Racial Uplift and the Post-Black Aesthetic in Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier
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    Chapter 14 Embodying Hybridity: Anna Deavere Smith’s Identity Cross-Overs
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Title
Understanding Blackness through Performance
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan US, October 2013
DOI 10.1057/9781137313805
ISBNs
978-1-349-45915-5, 978-1-137-31380-5
Editors

Crémieux, Anne, Lemoine, Xavier, Rocchi, Jean-Paul

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Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 38%
Student > Bachelor 2 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 13%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 13%
Unknown 1 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 4 50%
Social Sciences 2 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 13%
Unknown 1 13%