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"Let's Get It On!" Performance Theory and Black Pentecostalism

2008; Routledge; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1558/blth2008v6i3.308

1743-1670

Ashon Crawley,

Rhetoric and Communication Studies

In this paper, performance theory, augmented with both feminist and queer theory critiques and ideas, help analyze the various aspects of Black Pentecostal experience. This paper is primarily concerned with the rhetorics of the Black Church and how these rhetorical strategies can immure congregants to abject embodied experience. I use the Black Pentecostal church tradition as a site that both consolidates and disrupts binary, heteronormative, heterosexist and homoracist gender systems, analyzing a sermon titled "Let's Get It On" by Bishop Iona Locke to demonstrate this.