Beschreibung
A collection of essays concerning the black body in American
dance, EmBODYing Liberation serves as an important
contribution to the growing field of scholarship in African
American dance, in particular the strategies used by
individual artists to contest and liberate racialized
stagings of the black body. The collection features special
essays by Thomas DeFrantz and Brenda Dixon Gottschild, as
well as an interview with Isaac Julien.
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung is a lecturer at the
University of Heidelberg.
Alison D. Goeller is a lecturer at the University of Maryland.
