Art and Culture

Dr Keleta-Mae has been a working artist in theatre, literature and music for more than 20 years and she has performed in Canada, France, Jamaica and South Africa. Her music albums are: Fire Woman (2020); Bloom (2009) and Free Dome: South Africa (2001); and her plays are What We Deserve (2020), No Knowledge College (2005); and Stuck (2001). Her article “Get What’s Mine: ‘Formation’ Changes the Way We Listen to Beyoncé Forever” was translated into 15 languages and was one of the most read stories for a week across Vice Network’s Noisey websites in 24 countries (2016). While another of her articles, “Black Lives Matter is Dramatic, Unsettling and Inconvenient. That’s the Point” broke The Globe and Mail's opinion section record for most shares (2015). Dr. Keleta-Mae has commentated for outlets including The Canadian Press, The National Post, The Fader, BBN, CTV, CBC and BBC.

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Work Cited

• Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi. “The Economy of Violence: Black Bodies and the Unspeakable Terror”. Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. Eds. Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick. New York: Routledge, 1999. 311-23. Print.
• Brand, Dionne. At the Full and Change of the Moon. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1999. Print.
• Diverlus, Rodney, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware, eds. Until We’re Free: Black Lives Matter in Canada. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2020. Print.
• Elam Jr., Harry J and Kennell Jackson, eds. Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. Print.
• Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963. Print.
• Gale, Lorena. Angélique. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1999. Print.
• Harrison, Paul Carter, Victor Leo Walker II, and Gus Edwards, eds. Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
• Henderson, Mae Gwendolyn. “Speaking in Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer’s Literary Tradition”. Changing our own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989. 16-37. Print.
• hooks, bell. Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston: South End Press, 1981. Print.
• Hope, Donna P. Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica. Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. Print.
• Madison, D. Soyini. “Staging Fieldwork/Performing Human Rights.” The Safe Handbook of Performance Studies. Eds. D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006. 397-418. Print.
• McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Print.
• Williams, Patricia J. “On Being the Object of Property”. Writing on the body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. Eds. K. Conboy, Nadia Medina and Sarah Stanbury. New York: Columbia Press, 1997. 155-175. Print.