Repeating Body - Slavery''s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary

Informationen zum Autor Kimberly Juanita Brown Klappentext Kimberly Juanita Brown is Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College.¿ Zusammenfassung Kimberly Juanita Brown explores the literary and visual representations of how black women bear the marks of slavery! centers black women in narratives of slavery! and uncovers and critiques the refusal to see the violence done to black women's bodies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Kimberly Juanita Brown
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780822359098
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5909-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology