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题名/责任者:

The Black female body in American literature and art : performing identity / Caroline A. Brown.

出版发行项:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

ISBN:

9780415895507 (hardback)

ISBN:

0415895502 (hardback)

载体形态项:

xvi, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

丛编说明:

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 5

丛编统一题名:

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 5.

个人责任者:

Brown, Caroline A., 1967-

论题主题:

American fiction-African American authors-History and criticism.

论题主题:

American fiction-Women authors-History and criticism.

论题主题:

African American women novelists-20th century-Aesthetics.

论题主题:

Art and literature-United States.

中图法分类号:

I712.074

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index.

摘要附注:

"This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate are bound to such contemporary, postmodern visual artists as Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, Betye Saar, and Faith Ringgold. While the artists and authors rely on radically different media--photos, collage, video, and assembled objects, as opposed to words and rhythm--both sets of intellectual activists insist on the primacy of the black aesthetic. Both assert artistic agency and cultural continuity in the face of the oppression, social transformation, and cultural multiplicity of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book examines how African-American performative practices mediate the tension between the ostensibly de-racialized body politic and the hyper-racialized black, female body, reimagining the cultural and political ground that guides various articulations of American national belonging. Brown shows how and why black women writers and artists matter as agents of change, how and why the form and content of their works must be recognized and reconsidered in the increasingly frenzied arena of cultural production and political debate."--Provided by publisher.

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