Applying J.L. Austin: A Black Speech ACT Workbook - Paperback

by Tracie Morris (Author)

What are early elements or features of your relationship to the idea of Blackness vis a vis your self-identification do you recall in language? How did/do you negotiate it through language? (Could be to yourself, and/or to others) In this context, did you feel like an outsider or an insider? What mitigated this feeling if anything? Would there be anything that you would've done/said differently? Would this change make everyone feel better or only you/a few? (No judgment, only to get a deeper understanding of the situation.) This is to more fully understand the total speech environment.

Author Biography

Born in Brooklyn, interdisciplinary poet and sound artist Tracie Morris earned an MFA at Hunter College and a PhD at New York University. She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and at Michael Howard Studios. In her poetry, Morris transforms and complicates her subjects of abuse, power, and the body through repetition and accretive adjustments or substitutions, creating an intimate, dynamic space for readers and listeners. Morris's poetry collections include handholding: 5 kinds (01/01/2016), Rhyme Scheme (01/01/2012), and Intermission (01/01/1998). Her work is featured in numerous anthologies, including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (01/01/2015), The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of HipHop (01/01/2015), and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (2002). With Charles Bernstein, she coedited Best American Experimental Writing (01/01/2016). Her sound installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Jamaica Center for Arts &Learning, and other sites. She leads the Tracie Morris Band and is also a lead singer for the group Terraplane.