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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : representational static
- Sight unseen : contemporary visual slave narratives
- Behind the scenes and inside out : Elizabeth Keckly's use of the slave narrative form
- Optical allusions: textual visuality in running a thousand miles for freedom
- "The shadow of the cloud" : racial speculation and cultural vision in Solomon Northup's Twelve years a slave
- Gestures against movements : Henry Box Brown and economies of narrative performance
- Epilogue : racial violence, racial capitalism, and reading revolution: Harriet Jacobs, John Jones, Kerry James Marshall, and Kyle Baker.