Fugitive testimony : on the visual logic of slave narratives /
Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the rac...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints. |
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| Physical Description: | 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823272891 (cloth : alk. paper) 0823272893 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780823272907 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0823272907 (pbk. : alk. paper) |