Spoken Resistance: Slam Poetry Performance as a Diasporic Response to Discursive Violence
This project foregrounds the work and perspectives of spoken word poets of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent in connection to the NYC slam poetry scene. I trace the parallel racialization of MENA diaspora communities in the US and the development of slam poetry as a space for raising “...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2017
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| Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1032 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2068&context=scripps_theses |