The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art: Performing Identity

by Brown, Caroline

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Routledge. New. Hardcover. Orderbook - wwb -----THE BLACK FEMALE BODY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND ART: PERFORMING IDENTITY. Caroline A. Brown. Routledge, Taylor Francis Group, New York, 2012. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature, 5. 308 pp. With 30 ills. 24 x 16 cm. LC 2011-28295 ISBN 9780415895507 In English. Indexing: Western United States Post-1970 Several Media Women Artists, African American Artists Plans: 73 Worldwide Number: 144997Hardcover $125.00x (libraries receive a 10% discount on this title); *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 308 pp. ; 30 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature; P 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, as opposed to words and rhythm both sets of intel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Binding: hardcover

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