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