Poetry. African American Studies. Artwork by Carole Byard. SUITE FOR MOZAMBIQUE is a poetic journey that takes the reader from the history and struggle of the African continent to the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Gale P. Jackson is a poet, writer and cultural historian who received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for her work in griot traditions and whose work has appeared in many publications and anthologies including Callalou, African American Review, Artist and Influence and Essence. Carole Byard's awards for painting, sculpture, and drawing include two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships, grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Gottlieb Foundation, and the Ford Motors Institute of International Education; and for her children?s books, she has received the Caldecott Medal and two Coretta Scott King Awards.

Suite for Mozambique

Literature & Fiction

Jackson, Gale P.

Poetry

IKON

<div> In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social&nbsp;and literary criticism, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman "re-members" and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in performance.&nbsp; 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. 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, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman offers a fresh perspective on familiar material and an expansion of our sources, reading, and vision of African diaspora, African American, and American literatures. &nbsp; </div>

Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University Of Nebraska Press

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