How Long to Read Gesture and Power

How Long Does it Take to Read Gesture and Power?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Gesture and Power by Yolanda Covington-Ward

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Conceiving of the body as the center of analysis, a catalyst for social action, and as a conduit for the social construction of reality, Covington-Ward focuses on specific flash points in the last ninety years of Congo's troubled history, when embodied performance was used to stake political claims, foster dissent, and enforce power. In the 1920s Simon Kimbangu started a Christian prophetic movement based on spirit-induced trembling, which swept through the Lower Congo, subverting Belgian colonial authority. Following independence, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko required citizens to dance and sing nationalist songs daily as a means of maintaining political control. More recently, embodied performance has again stoked reform, as nationalist groups such as Bundu dia Kongo advocate for a return to precolonial religious practices and non-Western gestures such as traditional greetings. In exploring these embodied expressions of Congolese agency, Covington-Ward provides a framework for understanding how embodied practices transmit social values, identities, and cultural history throughout Africa and the diaspora.

How long is Gesture and Power?

Gesture and Power by Yolanda Covington-Ward is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gesture and Power Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Gesture and Power aloud.

What Reading Level is Gesture and Power?

Gesture and Power is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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