Put your hands on your hips and act like a woman : Black history and poetics in performance /
"Gale P. Jackson describes and reimagines the ways women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience with dance and explores the narratives, articulations of agency, and constructions of identity embedded in women's cultural performanc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2020
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Gale P. Jackson describes and reimagines the ways women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience with dance and explores the narratives, articulations of agency, and constructions of identity embedded in women's cultural performance. In engaging these vibrant traditions, "Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman" provides a window into multiple discourses and new paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, and theory embedded in Black traditions"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781496220905 1496220900 9781496220929 1496220927 9781496220912 1496220919 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2020). |
