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BLACK WOMANHOOD
IMAGES, ICONS, AND IDEOLOGIES OF THE AFRICAN BODY |
| By: |
Barbara Thompson (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£94.00 |
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£79.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0295987707 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780295987705 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 March, 2008 |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Description: |
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. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body. |
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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. |
| Illustrations: |
250 illus., 212 in color |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Washington Press |
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Returnable |
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