Embodied Avatars

Uri McMillan

Description

How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performanceWinner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or cultureWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchWinner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchTracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-firstcentury, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raisednew ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.McMillan reframes the concept of the avatar in the service of black performance art,describing black women performers' skillful manipulation of synthetic selves and adroitprojection of their performances into other representational mediums. A bold rethinking ofperformance art, Embodied Avatars analyzes daring performances of alterity staged by"ancient negress" Joice Heth and fugitive slave Ellen Craft, seminal artists Adrian Piper andHowardena Pindell, and contemporary visual and music artists Simone Leigh and NickiMinaj. Fusing performance studies with literary analysis and visual culture studies,McMillan offers astute readings of performances staged in theatrical and quotidian locales,from freak shows to the streets of 1970s New York; in literary texts, from artists' writingsto slave narratives; and in visual and digital mediums, including engravings, photography,and video art. Throughout, McMillan reveals how these performers manipulated thedimensions of objecthood, black performance art, and avatars in a powerful re-scripting oftheir bodies while enacting artful forms of social misbehavior.The Critical Lede interview with Uri McMillan

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: NYU Press
• Date de parution: 04 novembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781479897766
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

Emb odied Avatars

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Sexual Cultures General Editors: Ā éé, àà ô’ô, à Jôŝûà Çàéŝ-éŝô Founding Editors: JôŝÈ Éŝéà ûñôz à Ā éé Titles in the series include Times Square Red, Times Square Bue Śàûé R. Déà Queer Gobaizations: Citizensip and te Afterife of Cooniaism Éé  Āàô Çûz ààÈ à à . àààŝà  Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces Jûàà àíà Rôíûéz Love te Sin: Sexua Reguation and te Limits of Reigious Toerance Jàé R. Jàôŝé à Ā éé Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and te Latinization of American Cuture àçéŝ Èô-ûàé Manning te Race: Reforming Back Men in te Jim Crow Era àô Rôŝŝ In a Queer Time and Pace: Transgender Bodies, Subcutura Lives Jû àéŝà Wy I Hate Abercrombie and Fitc: Essays on Race and Sexuaity in te U.S. D Ā. çé God Hates Fags: Te Retorics of Reigious Vioence çàé Çô Once You Go Back: Coice, Desire, and te Back American Inteectua Rôé Ré-à Te Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cutura Memory ázàô à Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and te Body in Nineteent- Century America Dàà ûçàô

Cruising Utopia: Te Ten and Tere of Queer Futurity JôŝÈ Éŝéà ûñôz Anoter Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Śçô é Extravagant Abjection: Backness, Power, and Sexuaity in te African American Literary Imagination Dàéç Śçô Reocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries àé ôŝô Beyond te Nation: Diasporic Fiipino Literature and Queer Reading à Jôŝé ôçé Singe: Arguments for te Uncouped çàé Çô Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spebinding Performance in te Asias É-é  Transforming Citizensips: Transgender Articuations of te Law ŝààç éŝ Te Deectabe Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism witin U.S. Save Cuture çé ôôà, Éé  Jûŝ Ā. Jôçé à D Ā. çé Sexua Futures, Queer Gestures and Oter Latina Longings Jûàà àíà Rôíûéz Sensationa Fes: Race, Power, and Masocism Āé Jàà ûŝŝé Te Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopoitics, Biosociaity, and Postuman Ecoogies Ràçé Ç. éé Not Gay: Sex between Straigt Wite Men Jàé à Embodied Avatars: Geneaogies of Back Feminist Art and Performance Û çà

ô à çôéé ŝ ô ôôŝ  é ŝééŝ, ŝéé .ûéŝŝ.ô.

Éôé Āààŝ

Geneaogies of Back Feminist Art and Performance

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To Arie, My far-lung friends, and ad infinitum to Simone

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List of Iustrations Acknowedgments  ôûçô: éô Ôjéçŝ  . à éô: é Çûôûŝ Çàŝé ô Jôçé é, é Āçé ééŝŝ  . àŝŝ éôàçéŝ: Éé Çà’ŝ ûé Śééŝ  . àŝç ôŝŝéŝ: Āà é’ŝ Āàà Śé-Āéàô  4. ŝ ŝ éôàçé àôû ôû? é Ā, Āçŝ, à àç éŝ Çqûé ô ôàéà é   Çôçûŝô: “’é éé éô  ôé é”  Notes Index About te Autor

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