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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Weight
- 3 lbs
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780295987712
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295987715
ISBN-13
9780295987712
eBay Product ID (ePID)
64176003
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Black Womanhood : Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
60.9 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-041938
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Rather than recycling the colonial approach to power and subjectivity, which defines the self through the ridicule of the other, Black Womanhood provides various textual, visual, and personal tactics that can contribute to re-imagining a more humane way forward.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
704.9/42408996
Table Of Content
Lenders to the Exhibition Foreword / Brian P. Kennedy Acknowledgments / Barbara Thompson Introduction / Barbara Thompson Part One Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives 1. The African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination / Barbara Thompson 2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Neo-Crusaders / Ifi Amadiume 3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art / Enid Schildkrout Plates Part Two Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary 4. The Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archives / Christraud Geary 5. The Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culture / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Plates Part Three Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys into Black Womanhood 6. Picturing the New Negro Woman / Deborah Willis 7. The Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen / Carla Williams 8. Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Clixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Backer / Ayo Abiétou Coly 9. Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voice / Barbara Thompson Plates Artists Contributors Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon--the black female body--and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical images of black women as exotic Others, erotic fantasies, and supermaternal Mammies. Written by experts in African and African American art and illustrated with more than 200 historical and contemporary images, this book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of race and gender in art and culture. Barbara Thompsonn is curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American collections at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College., Explorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. Black Womanhood examines an especially charged icon--the black female body--and contemporary artists' interventions upon historical images of black women as exotic Others, erotic fantasies, and supermaternal Mammies. This book presents icons of the black female body as seen from three separate but intersecting perspectives: the traditional African, the colonial, and the contemporary global. The display and contemplation of such iconic images addresses complex and often competing forces of self-presentation and the representation of others. Peeling back layers of social, cultural, and political realities, Black Womanhood explores how historic icons inform contemporary artistic responses to the black female body through an examination of themes such as beauty, fertility and sexuality, maternity, and women's roles and power in society. More than 200 historical and contemporary images accompany written contributions by artists, curators and scholars. This compelling volume makes a valuable contribution to ongoing discussions of race, gender, and sexuality by promoting a deeper understanding of past and present readings of black womanhood, both in Africa and in the West.
LC Classification Number
N8232.B55 2008
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