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Fugitive Testimony : On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives /
"Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge t...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : representational static
- Sight unseen : contemporary visual slave narratives
- Behind the scenes and inside out : Elizabeth Keckly's use of the slave narrative form
- Optical allusions: textual visuality in running a thousand miles for freedom
- "The shadow of the cloud" : racial speculation and cultural vision in Solomon Northup's Twelve years a slave
- Gestures against movements : Henry Box Brown and economies of narrative performance
- Epilogue : racial violence, racial capitalism, and reading revolution: Harriet Jacobs, John Jones, Kerry James Marshall, and Kyle Baker.
- "Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints."
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