“The Costs of Re-membering: What’s at Stake in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” in African American Performance and Theatre History: A Critical Reader, 306-327
African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. Assembled by two respected scholars in black theater and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field (Joseph Roach and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. among other), this volume is organized into four sections representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance past and present interact and enact continuous social, cultural, and political dialogues. The premise behind the book is that analyzing African-American theater and performance traditions offers insight into how race has operated and continues to operate in American society. The only one-volume collection of its kind, this volume is likely to become the central reference for those studying black theater.
Christina Sharpe is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University.
Other publications from this author include:
- Ordinary Notes (2022)
- “The Crook of Her Arm” (2017)
- “Love Is the Message” in Love is the Message, the Message is Death (2016)
- In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
- “Three Scenes” in On Marronage: Ethical Confrontations with Anti-Blackness (2015)
- “Black Studies: in the Wake” The Black Scholar, Special Issue, The Boundaries of Black Studies (2014)
- “The Lie at the Center of Everything” in Black Studies Papers (2014)
- “Response to Jared Sexton’s “Ante-Anti-Blackness: Afterthoughts” for Lateral (inaugural issue of online, peer reviewed E-journal of the Cultural Studies Association) (2012)
- Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010)
- “Gayl Jones’ ‘Days that were Pages of Hysteria.'” in Revisiting Slave Narratives / Les avatars contemporains des récits d’esclaves, 159-176 (2005)
- “Learning to Live Without Black Familia: Cherríe Moraga’s Nationalist Articulations” in Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression, 240-257 (2003)