Details
Embodied Avatars
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and PerformanceSexual Cultures, Band 5
30,99 € |
|
Verlag: | NYU Press |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 04.11.2015 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781479897766 |
Sprache: | englisch |
DRM-geschütztes eBook, Sie benötigen z.B. Adobe Digital Editions und eine Adobe ID zum Lesen.
Beschreibungen
<p><b>How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance</b><br><br><br>Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture<br><br><br>Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research<br><br><br>Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research<br><br><br><br>Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first<br>century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-<br>objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised<br>new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.<br>McMillan reframes the concept of the avatar in the service of black performance art,<br>describing black women performers’ skillful manipulation of synthetic selves and adroit<br>projection of their performances into other representational mediums. A bold rethinking of<br>performance art, Embodied Avatars analyzes daring performances of alterity staged by<br>“ancient negress” Joice Heth and fugitive slave Ellen Craft, seminal artists Adrian Piper and<br>Howardena Pindell, and contemporary visual and music artists Simone Leigh and Nicki<br>Minaj. Fusing performance studies with literary analysis and visual culture studies,<br>McMillan offers astute readings of performances staged in theatrical and quotidian locales,<br>from freak shows to the streets of 1970s New York; in literary texts, from artists’ writings<br>to slave narratives; and in visual and digital mediums, including engravings, photography,<br>and video art. Throughout, McMillan reveals how these performers manipulated the<br>dimensions of objecthood, black performance art, and avatars in a powerful re-scripting of<br>their bodies while enacting artful forms of social misbehavior.<br><br>The Critical Lede interview with Uri McMillan</p>
Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:
Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School
von: Stephen E. Brock, Shane R. Jimerson, Robin L. Hansen
![PDF ebook](img/default/pdf-25x30.jpg)
96,29 €
How to Become an Effective Course Director
von: Bruce W. Newton, Jay H. Menna, Patrick W. Tank
![PDF ebook](img/default/pdf-25x30.jpg)
64,19 €