Falling, Floating, Flickering : : Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance / / Hershini Bhana Young.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• VerfasserIn: Young, Hershini Bhana,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Crip ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 17 b/w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

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 -- About the Author