Fugitive Testimony(1st Edition) On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives by JanetNeary Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2016 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7290-7, ISBN: 0-8232-7290-7
"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 t ..."
"Conditions of the Present collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States. Barrett confronts critical blind spots within both academic and popular discourse, offering readings of cultural and literary texts that transcend institutional divides and the gulf between academia and the street. Whether analyzing autobiog ..."
Fugitive Testimony On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives (Hardback) by JanetNeary Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Fordham Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7289-1, ISBN: 0-8232-7289-3
"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 t ..."
"Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions―imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively―played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemi ..."
"Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are j ..."
Fugitive Testimony On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives by JanetNeary Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7292-1, ISBN: 0-8232-7292-3
"Introduction: Representational. Static. 1. On the word “unvarnished” itself as an
authenticating strategy, see James Olney, “'I Was Born a Slave': Slave Narratives,
Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature,” Callaloo 20 (Winter 1984): 46–
73. Olney writes that white editors and amanuenses used the word, a reference
to Shakespeare's Othello, to elevate and ... The interview is reprinted in Glenn
Ligon, Yourself in the World: S ..."
Fugitive Testimony On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives by JanetNeary Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-7291-4, ISBN: 0-8232-7291-5
"1 As Fred Moten argues, Hartman's critical repression of the scene of racial
violence extends Douglass's own act of ... Hartman's evocation of an absent
spectacle in Scenes of Subjection, published in 1997, coincides with a turn away
from ..."
"Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions-imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively-played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined. These texts vary widely: some are canonical, others archival; some literary, others scientific; some polemi ..."
Conditions of the Present Selected Essays Barrett, Lindon and Neary, Janet by Lindon Barrett Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2018 by Duke University Press Books 2018-03-09, Durham ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7032-1, ISBN: 0-8223-7032-8