Critical Voicings of Black Liberation Resistance and Representations in the Americas

by Phillips, Kimberley L.; Pinson, Hermine D.; Thomas, Lorenzo; Wallinger, Hanna

• ISBN13: 9783825867393
• ISBN10: 3825867390
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-09
• Publisher: Lit Verlag

Summary

The contributions to Critical Voices of Black Liberation in the Americas originated from the 1999 CAAR Conference in Munster and from conferences held in the US in 2000 and 2001. More than half of the eleven essays consider black performances on stage, in sound, and on film; the remaining essays explore slavery, African American literature, and nineteenth-century black educators. These exciting essays creatively examine artistic and/or political articulation of black liberation as the construction of a new critical and signifyin(g) voice. This liberated and critical voice asserts itself as much as a communal expression of black subjectivities as it is an articulation of the black self.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Dedication	1	(2)
Critical Voicings of Black Liberation: Resistance and Representations in the Americas	3	(8)
Hermine D. Pinson
Kimberley L. Phillips
Liberating Metaphorical Sites: Morrison, Winfrey, and the Popularizing of the ``All-Black'' Oklahoma Settlements	11	(16)
Cathy Covell Waegner
``Memorizing'' the Female Body: Gayl Jones's Corregidora	27	(8)
Josefina Cornejo
Moments of Epiphany in Autobiographical Writings of the Twentieth-Century South	35	(12)
Ineke Bockting
``Queen of the Colonial Exposition'': Josephine Baker's Strategic Performance	47	(20)
Michael Borshuk
``Gershwin Gone Native!'': Perspectives on Authenticity in Porgy and Bess	67	(14)
Katherine Dacey
It Ain't Necessarily So That It Ain't Necessarily So: Jazz Recordings of Porgy and Bess as Film and Cultural Criticism	81	(12)
Arthur Knight
``Get[ting[ Their Fiction out into the World'': Fiction and Liberation in Earl Lovelace's Salt and Fred D'Aguiar's Dear Future	93	(12)
Kathie Birat
``Dramatising the Verse'' or Versifying the Drama: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth. A Verse Play	105	(10)
Valerie Bada
Education for Liberation: Daniel Alexander Payne	115	(12)
Nelson T. Strobert
Dismantling Slavery's Master-Narratives Through African Diaspora Cinema	127	(20)
Judylyn S. Ryan
From the Amistad Slave Rebellion to the Christian Mendi Mission in West Africa: The African American Career of Sarah Margru Kinson	147	(16)
Katja Fullberg-Stolberg
Liberating an African American Text: Editing Clotel for an Electronic Century	163	(14)
Christopher Mulvey
Contributors	177