Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance - Gale P. Jackson - Books - University of Nebraska Press - 9781496217684 - April 1, 2020
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Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance

Gale P. Jackson

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance

In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson “re-members” and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.


246 pages, 1 photograph, 4 illustrations, index

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 1, 2020
ISBN13 9781496217684
Publishers University of Nebraska Press
Pages 246
Dimensions 236 × 160 × 23 mm   ·   514 g