The repeating body
Subtitle: slavery's visual resonance in the contemporary
By: Kimberly Juanita Brown
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780822359098; 9780822359296
Subjects: Collective memory; Human figure in art; African American women in art; Slavery; African American women in literature; Human body in literature; African American women; Human body
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: visualizing the body of the black Atlantic --; title: Black rapture: corporeal afterimage and transnational desire --; title: Fragmented figurations of the maternal --; title: The boundaries of excess --; title: The return: conjuring the figure, following the form --; title: Conclusion: photographic incantations of the visual.