Falling, Floating, Flickering : Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance / Hershini Bhana Young.
Young, Hershini Bhana, author.
2023
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Title Falling, Floating, Flickering : Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance / Hershini Bhana Young.
Author Young, Hershini Bhana, author.
ISBN 9781479818471
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479818471.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
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Description 1 online resource : 17 b/w illustrations
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9781479818471.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.4
Summary Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black socialityLinking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital's weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notions of Africa as less progressive than the West in recognizing the rights of disabled people. Ultimately, this book foregrounds the engagement of diasporic Africans, who are still reeling from the violence of colonialism, slavery, poverty, and war, as they gesture toward a liberatory Black sociality by falling, floating, and flickering.
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EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2023 English
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Holding Your Breath
1 Falling and Crawling
2 Floating
3 Flickering
4 Spasming and Passing Out
5 Shaking the World
6 Unhinging: Experimenting in Black Feminist Cripistemologies at the Edge of the World
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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