Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora (Blacks in the Diasp...
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Book details
- Author
- Jana Evans Braziel
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- History & Criticism
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780253219787
- ISBN-10
- 0253219787
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora)
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ISBN: 0253219787
Author: Braziel, Jana Evans
Condition: New
Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo ngs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrire, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dréd (a.k.a. Mildréd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora.
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