Performing Female Blackness

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2023

ISBN-13: 9781771124829

<p><strong><em>Performing Female Blackness</em> examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. </strong></p>

<p>This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how the land widely known as Canada shapes these performances. By exploring Black expressive culture in familial, literary, and performance settings, Naila Keleta-Mae theorizes that “perpetual performance” forces people who are read as female and Black to always be figuratively on stage regardless of cultural, political, or historical contexts. Written in poetry, prose, and journal form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, <em>Performing Female Blackness</em> is ideal not only for scholars, educators, and students of the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts but also for artists and the general public too.</p>