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In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural
history, and social 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. 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.
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