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( Ghost Gestures )

( Ghost Gestures )
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Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : 1938900383
ISBN-13 : 9781938900389
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Book Synopsis ( Ghost Gestures ) by : Gabrielle Civil

Download or read book ( Ghost Gestures ) written by Gabrielle Civil and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Drama African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Gold Line Press Nonfiction Chapbook Contest. How can you return to where you've never been? ( GHOST GESTURES ) conjures diaspora hauntings and traces black bodies across space and time. In Dakar and Banjul, Detroit and Montreal, Tlaxcala and Río Piédras, Gabrielle Civil showcases black bodies dancing, hiding, and re-emerging. In performance writing, she invokes the doll, the queen, and the ghost to explore where black women have never and always been. She plays hide-and-seek with her own transforming body and tackles history, identity, art, and desire. "bring this here / bring this back / keep this here / bring us back / bring us here / bring us back to this." Incorporating chants, notations, images, and scores, ( GHOST GESTURES ) will spirit you away.


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