Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora: black women writing and performing/

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Henderson, Mae G
Format:	Printed Book
Published:	Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:	Race and American culture
Subjects:	American fiction- African American authors- History and criticism. American fiction- Women authors- History and criticism. American fiction- 20th century- History and criticism. African American women entertainers- History- 20th century. African American women-Intellectual life- 20th century. African Americans in literature. African American women in literature.
Online Access:	https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ylNxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=Speaking+in+tongues+and+dancing+diaspora:&source=bl&ots=QEZFuitJUn&sig=28VomutdJ0ruUHf8SU98ZhIW0qs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiusNH3_qPMAhXGJI4KHXTDCzYQ6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=Speaking%20in%20tongues%20and%20dancing%20diaspora%3A&f=false

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Alice Walker's The color purple: revisions and redefinitions
(W)riting the work and working the rites
Speaking in tongues: dialectics, dialogics, and the black woman writer's literary tradition
Toni Morrison's Beloved: re-membering the body as historical text
The stories of (O)Dessa: stories of complicity and resistance
"Seen but not heard": a poetics of Afro-American women's writing
Gayl Jones's White rat: speaking silence/silencing speech
State of the art: black feminist theory
What it means to teach the other when the other is the self
Authors and authorities. Nella Larsen's Passing: passing, performance, and (post)modernism
Josephine Baker and La revue nègre: from ethnography to performance
Dancing diaspora: colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic readings of Josephine Baker as dancer and performance artist
About face, or, what is this "back" in b(l)ack popular culture?: from Venus Hottentot to Video Hottie
In retrospect. Sherley Anne Williams: "someone sweet angel chile"
Bebe Moore Campbell: literature as equipment for living.

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