Embodying Liberation
Author | : Dorothea Fischer-Hornung |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-13 | : 3825844730 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783825844738 |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Download or read book Embodying Liberation written by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays concerning the black body in American dance, EmBODYing Liberation serves as an important contribution to the growing field of scholarship in African American dance, in particular the strategies used by individual artists to contest and liberate racialized stagings of the black body. The collection features special essays by Thomas DeFrantz and Brenda Dixon Gottschild, as well as an interview with Isaac Julien.