{"product_id":"put-your-hands-on-your-hips-and-act-like-a-woman-black-history-and-poetics-in-performance-paperback-1","title":"Put Your Hands on Your Hips and ACT Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGale P. Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social and literary criticism, \u003ci\u003ePut Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e \"re-members\" and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in performance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These women's songs and dances provide us with a wealth of polyphonic text that records their reflections on identity, imagination, and agency, providing a collective performed autobiography that complements the small body of pre-twentieth-century African and African American women's writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gale P. Jackson engages with a range of vibrant traditions to provide windows into multiple discourses as well as \"new\" and old paradigms for locating the history, philosophy, pedagogy, and theory embedded in a lineage of African diaspora performance and to articulate and address the postcolonial fragmentation of humanist thinking. In lyrically interdisciplinary movement, across herstories, geographies, and genres, cultural continuities, improvisation, and transformative action, \u003ci\u003ePut Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh perspective on familiar material and an expansion of our sources, reading, and vision of African diaspora, African American, and American literatures.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGale P. Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, writer, and Africanist scholar. She is a professor of interdisciplinary arts at Goddard College and the author of \u003ci\u003eMeDea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe Stand Our Ground: Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 246\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47344416522489,"sku":"9781496238894","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/hXcIv0r2G99781496238894_84a00dd3-870c-46ad-873d-c0b58f409199.webp?v=1769731717","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/put-your-hands-on-your-hips-and-act-like-a-woman-black-history-and-poetics-in-performance-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}