In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson “re-members” and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.
In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson “re-members” and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.
Gale P. Jackson is a poet, writer, and Africanist scholar. She is a professor of interdisciplinary arts at Goddard College and the author of MeDea and We Stand Our Ground: Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Past and Prologue as Prelude: Eurydice’s Black Flight 1. The Way We Do: An Introductory Mapping 2. Juba Danced: Following a Story in Motion 3. The Ancestors and the Lullaby: Passing It On 4. Put Your Hands on Your Hips: Rites of Passage in Performance 5. Rosy, Possum, Morning Star: Work Songs and the Blues Coda: Circling Back Around Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Past and Prologue as Prelude: Eurydice’s Black Flight 1. The Way We Do: An Introductory Mapping 2. Juba Danced: Following a Story in Motion 3. The Ancestors and the Lullaby: Passing It On 4. Put Your Hands on Your Hips: Rites of Passage in Performance 5. Rosy, Possum, Morning Star: Work Songs and the Blues Coda: Circling Back Around Notes Bibliography Index
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