Fugitive Testimony : On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Neary, Janet (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Art, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives.
Semiotics and the arts.
Slavery in art.
Slave narratives > United States > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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