The repeating body : slavery's visual resonance in the contemporary

書誌事項

The repeating body : slavery's visual resonance in the contemporary

Kimberly Juanita Brown

Duke University Press, 2015

  • : pbk

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 1

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Bibliography: p. [229]-244

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural productions. Brown draws on black feminist theory, visual culture studies, literary criticism, and critical race theory to explore contemporary visual and literary representations of black women's bodies that embrace and foreground the body's vulnerability and slavery's inherent violence. She shows how writers such as Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, and Jamaica Kincaid, along with visual artists Carrie Mae Weems and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, highlight the scarred and broken bodies of black women by repeating, passing down, and making visible the residues of slavery's existence and cruelty. Their work not only provides a corrective to those who refuse to acknowledge that vulnerability, but empowers black women to create their own subjectivities. In The Repeating Body, Brown returns black women to the center of discourses of slavery, thereby providing the means with which to more fully understand slavery's history and its penetrating reach into modern American life.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Visualizing the Body of the Black Atlantic 1 1. Black Rapture: Corporeal Afterimage and Transnational Desire 18 2. Fragmented Figurations of the Maternal 57 3. The Boundaries of Excess 96 4. The Return: Conjuring the Figure, Following the Form 138 Conclusion: Photographic Incantations of the Visual 177 Notes 195 Bibliography 229 Index 245

「Nielsen BookData」 より

詳細情報

ページトップへ