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9780295987705

Black Womanhood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780295987705

  • ISBN10:

    0295987707

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

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Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives
The African Female Body in the Cultural Imaginationp. 27
African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Nee-Crusadersp. 49
Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Artp. 71
Platesp. 94
Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary
The Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archivesp. 143
The Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culturep. 163
Platesp. 180
Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys Into Black Womanhood
Picturing the New Negro Womanp. 227
The Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allenp. 247
Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Calixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Bakerp. 259
Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voicep. 279
Platesp. 312
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