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The Healing Stage
Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Buch von Lisa Biggs
Sprache: Englisch

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Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies

Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses and criminalize what women do to survive interpersonal and state violence. In The Healing Stage, Lisa Biggs reveals how four ensembles of currently and formerly incarcerated women and their collaborating artists use theater and performance to challenge harmful policies and popular discourses that justify locking up "bad" women. Focusing on prison-based arts programs in the US and South Africa, Biggs illustrates how Black feminist cultural traditions-theater, dance, storytelling, poetry, humor, and protest-enable women to investigate the root causes of crime and refute dominant narratives about incarcerated women. In doing so, the arts initiatives that she writes about encourage individual and collective healing, a process of repair that exceeds state definitions of rehabilitation. These case studies offer powerful examples of how the labor of incarcerated Black women artists-some of the most marginalized and vulnerable people in our society-radically extends our knowledge of prison arts programs and our understanding of what is required to resolve human conflicts and protect women's lives.
Winner, 2023 NCA Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies

Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses and criminalize what women do to survive interpersonal and state violence. In The Healing Stage, Lisa Biggs reveals how four ensembles of currently and formerly incarcerated women and their collaborating artists use theater and performance to challenge harmful policies and popular discourses that justify locking up "bad" women. Focusing on prison-based arts programs in the US and South Africa, Biggs illustrates how Black feminist cultural traditions-theater, dance, storytelling, poetry, humor, and protest-enable women to investigate the root causes of crime and refute dominant narratives about incarcerated women. In doing so, the arts initiatives that she writes about encourage individual and collective healing, a process of repair that exceeds state definitions of rehabilitation. These case studies offer powerful examples of how the labor of incarcerated Black women artists-some of the most marginalized and vulnerable people in our society-radically extends our knowledge of prison arts programs and our understanding of what is required to resolve human conflicts and protect women's lives.
Über den Autor
Lisa Biggs is an actor, playwright, and the John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies at Brown University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 258
ISBN-13: 9780814214930
ISBN-10: 0814214932
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Biggs, Lisa
Hersteller: The Ohio State University Press
Maße: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Lisa Biggs
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,576 kg
preigu-id: 121663239
Über den Autor
Lisa Biggs is an actor, playwright, and the John Atwater and Diana Nelson Assistant Professor of the Arts and Africana Studies at Brown University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 258
ISBN-13: 9780814214930
ISBN-10: 0814214932
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Biggs, Lisa
Hersteller: The Ohio State University Press
Maße: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Lisa Biggs
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2022
Gewicht: 0,576 kg
preigu-id: 121663239
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