Not your mother's mammy : the Black domestic worker in transatlantic women's media /

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"Not Your Mother's Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as vi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walters, Tracey Lorraine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Women household employees, Black, in art.
Women household employees, Black, in literature.
African American women household employees in art.
African American women household employees in literature.
Arts, Black.
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Employées de maison noires américaines dans l'art.
Employées de maison noires américaines dans la littérature.
Arts noirs.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
ART / General.
American literature > African American authors.
English literature > Black authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview : the history of black women's domestic labor from the twentieth century to the present. Quiet subversion : the radical acts of working-class women in the domestic sphere. Let's hear it from the maid : Alice Childress's Like one of the family
  • Dirty work : the representation of undocumented Caribbean domestic laborers in the Nandi Keyi's The true nanny diaries and Victoria Brown's Minding Ben
  • Forbidden kinship : homoerotic desire between the maid and mistress in Zanele Muholi's "Massa" and Mina(h)
  • We wear the mask : servitude, an art of performance and deception. A sartorial expression of Frenchness in Ousmane Sembène's Black girl : a Francophone revision of Jean Genet's The maids
  • Maid in Hollywood : the art of performance in Theresa Harris's By the way, meet Vera Stark
  • The art of dressing up in Mary Sibande's Long live the dead queen
  • Representing for Laure : African American/Caribbean women's reimaginings of Édouard Manet's Olympia. From the margin to the center : the maid in Édouard Manet's Olympia and the politics of recognition in the artwork of Mickalene Thomas and Renee Cox
  • Kara Walker's Marvelous sugar baby "Sphinx" : a satirical rendition of the mammy.

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