• CONTENTS


• Introduction


• 1. Alice Walker's The Color Purple: Revisions and Redefinitions


• 2. (W)Riting The Work and Working the Rites


• 3. Speaking in Tongues: Dialectics, Dialogics, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition


• 4. Toni Morrison's Beloved: Re-Membering the Body as Historical Text


• 5. The Stories of (O)Dessa: Stories of Complicity and Resistance


• 6. "Seen But Not Heard": A Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing


• 7. Gayl Jones's White Rat: Speaking Silence/Silencing Speech


• 8. State of the Art: Black Feminist Theory


• 9. What It Means to Teach the Other When the Other Is the Self


• 10. Authors and Authorities


• 11. Nella Larsen's Passing: Passing, Performance, and (Post)modernism


• 12. Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre: From Ethnography to Performance


• 13. Dancing Diaspora: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Diasporic Readings of Josephine Baker as Dancer and Performance Artist


• 14. About Face, or, What Is This "Back" in B(l)ack Popular Culture?: From Venus Hottentot to Video Hottie


• IN RETROSPECT


• 15. Sherley Anne Williams: "Someone Sweet Angel Chile"


• 16. Bebe Moore Campbell: "Literature as Equipment for Living"


• Bibliography


• Index

Mae G. Henderson is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is editor of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (2005), Borders, Boundaries and Frames (1995), and co-editor (with John Blassingame) of the five-volume Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals: An Annotated Index of Letters, 1817-1871 (1980).

Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora theorizes the preeminence of voice and narration (and the consequences of their absence) in the literary and cultural performances of black women.