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Black Womanhood - Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body (Paperback)
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Black Womanhood - Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body (Paperback)
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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.
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