The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary

Kimberly Juanita Brown

Published by Duke University Press 2015

The Repeating Body

Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary

Kimberly Juanita Brown

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375418

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About this book

Kimberly Juanita Brown explores the literary and visual representations of how black women bear the marks of slavery, centers black women in narratives of slavery, and uncovers and critiques the refusal to see the violence done to black women's bodies.

Author / Editor information

Kimberly Juanita Brown is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth University.

Reviews

"The Repeating Body offers a nuanced analysis grounded in detailed readings of embodiment in black diasporic and especially black feminist artistic works. . . . In this thoughtful study, Brown is probing the limits of the very stories that she understands as technologies of survival."

-- S. Trimble Contemporary Women's Writing

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Visualizing the Body of the Black Atlantic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Black Rapture Corporeal Afterimage and Transnational Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
2. Fragmented Figurations of the Maternal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
3. The Boundaries of Excess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
4. The Return Conjuring the Figure, Following the Form Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Conclusion: Photographic Incantations of the Visual Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 9 color illustrations

eBook

Published: August 27, 2015
ISBN: 9780822375418