That was my occupation
Oral narrative, performance, and black feminist thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5840901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Soyini Madison (a Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication , University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-232 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462939309366051 |
| OpenAlex | W2040767699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 28 |
Black feminist thought supports the interdependence of what are called "theories of the flesh" and "specialized knowledge." Theories of the flesh reflect the distinctive interpretations of the world carved out of the material realities of a group's life experiences. Specialized knowledge infuses elements and themes of black women's culture and traditions with critical interventionist thinking to provide black women with new tools of resistance. The oral narrative of Mrs. Alma Kapper, who worked as a domestic and sharecropper in the black belt of Mississippi, is illuminated through the joining of black feminist thought and the performance paradigm. As a result, black feminist thought and the performance paradigm augment each other as analytical constructs in unveiling the many ways people "lettered" and "unlettered" theorize themselves
Feminist theory · Flesh · Critical Race Theory in Education · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Qualitative Methods in Communication and Media
Disrupting the Dichotomy
Hometown Ethnography
Triple consciousness
Black Woman Insighting Future Vision
Expanding Upon Critical Methodologies and Perspectives in Communication Studies
Gendered Labor
Speaking Back to Academic Colonial Gatekeeping
W/Righting History
Decolonial Feminist Care
The future is in the gutters
Act like you got some home training
Mapping Slavery’s Attraction
On Sweetwater and the Significance of Black Women Tellin
Kindred Narratives
Third Wave Feminist Analysis of a Second Wave Feminist's Art
‘Whether you drown in 90 or 9 meters of water…’
Origins in Absence
Spoke tokenism
Disidentifications Revisited
Toward a feminist chamber theatre method
Personal narrative fiction
Amnesic performance
The place of performance in performance studies
I know how it is when nobody sees you”
Performance studies in communication
Performance tells it slant
Performing theory/embodied writing
My pen-pal, TPQ
They’re just like us only fictional
Transforming gender scripts
At the nexus of gumption and intimacy
Remapping Latinidad
Rhythm and the performance of organization
The self as other
Domesticating Difference
The politics of adaptation
Performing blackness
Politics and aesthetics, race and gender
The politics of personal narrative methodology
Learning to (re)member the things we’ve learned to forget
I (We) Refuse to Be Silenced”
Keeping Them Out, Letting You In
Feminist Identity in Romantic Relationships
Experimenting with anarchistic approaches to collaborative planning
Symbolic convergence and special communication theories
Monstrous Femininity
Reclaiming the “Other”
Art Saved my Life”
Learning from Within
Notes on Immigration, Youth, and Ethnographic Silence
Navigating with the Stars
I’ve had a history of resistance
Personal narrative, performance, performativity
A case study of Tracie Morris's Project Princess
Worldmaking with Aberoo
To Be a (M)other
Mentoring and Love
Passing, Cultural Performance, and Individual Agency
Listen to her
More Than Craft and Criteria
Kindred Narratives
"Beyond "an Aesthetic of Objectivity
Concern With Craft
Performing Autoethnography
All the women are White, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave
Black Literature and Literary Theory
The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation
Black Skin, White Masks
Discipline and Punish
Tomorrow's tomorrow
Ain't I a woman
Tales of the Field
Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
Black Feminist Thought
Story, Performance, and Event
The Signifying Monkey
The Double Meanings of the Spirituals
Personal narratives
Critical theory and “organic” intellectuals
The Folklore Text
The Drama of Nommo
One Hundred Years of Black Protest Music
Talking Back
Rethinking ethnography
Discipline and Punish
Talking Back
New Directions in Afro-American Literary Criticism
The Folklore Text
From Ritual to Theatre
The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
The 'Blackness of Blackness
| Unique citing works | 65 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,03 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 65 |