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Surreal Black Beauty: Risk, Difficulty, and Alterity in Contemporary Black Feminist Performance

Description:

Black women performers have made, and continue to make, contributions to the U.S.-avant-garde performance canon and Black performance traditions that go largely unaccounted for in academic studies. Research has shown that across temporalities, Black women performers have mobilized experimental avant-garde aesthetics to disrupt and refuse essentialized notions of Blackness in...

Keyword:

Avant-garde performance, Performance studies, and Black feminism

Subject:

African American studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts

Creator:

Webb, Chaunesti Nichelle

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_903678 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16104