for colored girls who’ve considered suicide while surviving Post-Traumatic Slavery Syndrome (with acknowledgements to Ntozake Shange and Dr. DeGruy)
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https://doi.org/10.21476/PP.2017.32172Keywords:
black girlhood/womanhood, arts-based research, critical performance autoethnography, practice-as-research,Abstract
In this audio article, the author reViews Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking work on black girlhood/womanhood, for colored girls who’ve considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. She briefly provides the personal context through which she interacts with the text for the first and latest time. She expands the narrative of black girlhood/womanhood into the personal by examining the actions of the characters and herself through Dr. DeGruy’s lens of Post-Traumatic Slavery Syndrome. Track 1 provides the narrative context and theoretical framework. Tracks 2 – 5 are the author’s performative responses. Track 6 lists the bibliography, while Track 7 provides a short bio of the author.References
DeGruy, Joy. 2005. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing. Portland OR: Joy DeGruy Publications.
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MacGregor, J.C. Chummy, George “The Fox” Williams, and Sunny Skylar, composers. 1942. “It Must Be Jelly ‘Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That”. Performed by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, RCA Victor.
Perera, Suvendrini, and Joseph Pugliese. 2011. “Introduction: Combat Breathing: State Violence and the Body in Question.” Somatechnics 1 (1): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2011.0002
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Shange, Ntozake. 1977. for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. New York: Scribner.
Upshaw, Allison. 2017. “My Body Knows Things: This Black Woman’s Storied Theory in Performative Autoethnography.” In Doing Autoethnography, edited by Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway, Tony E. Adams, and Derek M. Bolen, 55–65. Boston: Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-158-2_7
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