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Fugitive Testimony - On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives (Paperback) Loot Price: R680
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Fugitive Testimony - On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives (Paperback): Janet Neary

Fugitive Testimony - On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives (Paperback)

Janet Neary

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Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive of ante- and postbellum literary slave narratives as well as contemporary visual art, Janet Neary brings visual and performance theory to bear on the genre's central problematic: that the ex-slave narrator must be both object and subject of his or her own testimony. Taking works by current-day visual artists, including Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, and Ellen Driscoll, Neary employs their representational strategies to decode the visual work performed in nineteenth-century literary narratives by Elizabeth Keckley, Solomon Northup, William Craft, Henry Box Brown, and others. She focuses on the textual visuality of these narratives to illustrate how their authors use the logic of the slave narrative against itself as a way to undermine the epistemology of the genre and to offer a model of visuality as intersubjective recognition rather than objective division.

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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2016
Authors: Janet Neary
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7290-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-8232-7290-7
Barcode: 9780823272907

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