Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom

by Acampora, Christa Davis; Cotten, Angela L.

• ISBN13: 9780791471623
• ISBN10: 0791471624
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul explores innovative approaches to analyzing cultural productions through which women of color have challenged and undermined social and political forces that work to oppress them. Emphasizing art-making practices that emerge out of and reflect concrete lived experience, leading contributors to the fields of contemporary psychoanalytic literary analysis, Latin American studies, feminist theory, Native Women's studies, Africana studies, philosophy, and art history examine the relationship between the aesthetic and the political.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword: "Tragedy Fatigue" and "Aesthetic Agency"	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
On Making and Remaking: An Introduction	p. 1
Resisting Imagination
Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist Aesthetics	p. 21
Everyday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez's Fiction	p. 47
Authorizing Desire: Erotic Poetics and the Aisthesis of Freedom in Morrison and Shange	p. 59
Body Agonistes
MeShell Ndegeocello: Musical Articulations of Black Feminism	p. 81
Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now: Reading the Work of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson	p. 103
The Coloniality of Embodiment: Coco Fusco's Postcolonial Genealogies and Semiotic Agonistics	p. 141
Changing the Subject
Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell: Forming a Wise, Generous, and Beautiful "I Am"	p. 161
The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women's Art: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, Spirituality, and Identity	p. 181
Dalit Women's Literature: A Sense of the Struggle	p. 197
Home is Where the Art is: Shaping Space and Place
The Role of "Place" in New Zealand Maori Songs of Lament	p. 213
Theater Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem Renaissance	p. 231
Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the Melting Pot: Re/Locations and Homecomings in Native Women's Theater	p. 247
Works Cited	p. 265
About the Contributors	p. 283
Index	p. 287
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