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Wright, Beth-Sarah.

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Emancipative bodies: Woman, trauma and a corporeal theory of healing in Jamaican dancehall culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Emancipative bodies: Woman, trauma and a corporeal theory of healing in Jamaican dancehall culture./
Author:	Wright, Beth-Sarah.
Description:	293 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0737.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-03A.
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3127508
ISBN:	049674772X

Emancipative bodies: Woman, trauma and a corporeal theory of healing in Jamaican dancehall culture.
Wright, Beth-Sarah.

Emancipative bodies: Woman, trauma and a corporeal theory of healing in Jamaican dancehall culture. - 293 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-03, Section: A, page: 0737.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2004.

This dissertation critically examines how dance and the performance of the female body in contemporary Jamaican dancehall culture represent an emancipative process specifically addressing the effects of historical, insidious and personal forms of trauma. It addresses how these extremely explicit dances and carnal fashion actually negotiate and endeavor to heal contemporary effects of political and economic disenfranchisement, personal traumas, as well as persistent traumatic consequences of slavery. Dancehall's various dimensions collectively serve as effective tools in identity formation and social and economic empowerment for a historically alienated sector of society.

ISBN: 049674772XSubjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

Emancipative bodies: Woman, trauma and a corporeal theory of healing in Jamaican dancehall culture.
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520 $a Chapter One gives a brief history of this popular cultural phenomenon. It raises a central paradox, that of women celebrating their bodies to lyrics that scream violence about their bodies. It contextualises the dancehall space as having a history of resistive practices. Chapter Two introduces the concept of trauma, defining trauma on three levels, personal insidious and historical. It also describes how trauma informs what these bodies know or their corporeal epistemology. Chapter Three explores how trauma is addressed and how healing occurs through the unique dance forms of dancehall culture. The concept of emancipation is clarified in this chapter and is primarily achieved through the de-colonization of the body. Chapter Four is a compilation of interviews of women who participate in dancehall. Through their narratives they give tangible examples and situations of emancipative experiences as a result of the dancehall. Their experiences also bleed into their everyday lives outside the immediate context of the dancehall space. And finally, the dissertation analyses the vagina as a passageway of memory and healing as depicted in a series of dancehall docu-videos. The international distribution of these videos raises questions about whether these videos perpetuate stereotypical images of black women's bodies as hypersexual or whether dancehall culture is unique in its healing capacities to Jamaican women.
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