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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154282803321

Autore

Neary Janet

Titolo

Fugitive testimony : on the visual logic of slave narratives / / Janet Neary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7294-X

0-8232-7293-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/62092

Soggetti

Slave narratives - United States - History and criticism

Slavery in art

Semiotics and the arts

Art, Modern - 20th century - Themes, motives

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.