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Caroline Brown

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

Performing Identity

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This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate are bound to such contemporary, postmodern visual artists as Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, Betye Saar, and Faith Ringgold. While the artists and authors rely on radically different media-photos, collage, video, and assembled objects, a… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-136-28919-4
  • EAN: 9781136289194
  • Produktnummer: 13832352
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 308 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Caroline Brown is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Montreal. She specializes in African-American and diasporic literature, 20th century U.S. literature, and women's studies. Her articles have appeared in African American Review, Obsidian III, NWSA Journal, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

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