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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Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : black women writing and performing by Mae Henderson. ISBN 9780195116595. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
