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Agency and Self-Volition in Black Feminist Performance Art
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This article is published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Volition (linguistics) & Agency (philosophy).read more
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Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom. By Daphne Brooks. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006; 475 pp. $25.95 paper
TL;DR: Bodies in Dissent as discussed by the authors explores the processes of self-claiming and self-creation developed by racialized subjects in the context of 19th-century performance cultures in Britain and the US.
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Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics
TL;DR: The authors examines the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, pointing to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.
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Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
TL;DR: Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance as discussed by the authors.
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination
TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationship between blackness, abjection, and sexuality in Amiri Baraka's The Mad Man and The Occupied Territory.
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Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern
TL;DR: The Babylon Girls as discussed by the authors is a cultural history of African American women who performed in variety shows between 1890 and 1945, including the cakewalk, shimmy, and the Charleston.
Journal ArticleDOI
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom. By Daphne Brooks. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006; 475 pp. $25.95 paper
TL;DR: Bodies in Dissent as discussed by the authors explores the processes of self-claiming and self-creation developed by racialized subjects in the context of 19th-century performance cultures in Britain and the US.