"This is an eloquent, erudite, interdisciplinary study of centuries of willed relations that have played from Cape Town to New York in an Africanist archive of performance." — Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play
"Illegible Will is, in short, a masterpiece. While it is common to find a book able to shed new light on well-worn material, or that engages with a completely new archive, it is exceedingly rare to find a book that does both. This is such a book. Hershini Bhana Young's interdisciplinary approach weaves imaginative literary renderings with historical documents to create a vibrant and capacious vantage point through which to approach coercive performances. A highly imaginative, poetic, and creative approach to the archive, Illegible Will is of tremendous value for those in performance studies, black studies, literature, queer studies, and dance studies." — Uri McMillan, author of Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
"This is an eloquent, erudite, interdisciplinary study of centuries of willed relations that have played from Cape Town to New York in an Africanist archive of performance." — Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play
"Illegible Will is, in short, a masterpiece. While it is common to find a book able to shed new light on well-worn material, or that engages with a completely new archive, it is exceedingly rare to find a book that does both. This is such a book. Hershini Bhana Young's interdisciplinary approach weaves imaginative literary renderings with historical documents to create a vibrant and capacious vantage point through which to approach coercive performances. A highly imaginative, poetic, and creative approach to the archive, Illegible Will is of tremendous value for those in performance studies, black studies, literature, queer studies, and dance studies." — Uri McMillan, author of Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance