Overview

This book explores the theme of aesthetic agency and its potential for social and political progress.

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Author:   Christa Davis Acampora ,  Angela L. Cotten
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780791471616

ISBN 10:   0791471616
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   13 September 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Foreword: ""Tragedy Fatigue"" and ""Aesthetic Agency"" Joy James Acknowledgments On Making and Remaking: An Introduction Christa Davis Acampora I. Resisting Imagination 1. Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist Aesthetics Ritch Calvin 2. Everyday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez's Fiction Kelly Oliver 3. Authorizing Desire: Erotic Poetics and the Aisthesis of Freedom in Morrison and Shange Christa Davis Acampora II. Body Agonistes 4. MeShell Ndegeocello: Musical Articulations of Black Feminism Martha Mockus 5. Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now: Reading the Work of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson Kimberly Lamm 6. The Coloniality of Embodiment: Coco Fusco's Postcolonial Genealogies and Semiotic Agonistics Eduardo Mendieta III. Changing The Subject 7. Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell: Forming a Wise, Generous, and Beautiful ""I Am"" Ruth Porritt 8. The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women's Art: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, Spirituality, and Identity Phoebe Farris 9. Dalit Women's Literature: A Sense of the Struggle Nandita Gupta IV. Home Is Where The Art Is: Shaping Space And Place 10. The Role of ""Place"" in New Zealand Maori Songs of Lament Ailsa L. Smith 11. Theater Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem Renaissance Katherine Wilson 12. Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the Melting Pot: Re/Locations and Homecomings in Native Women's Theater Jaye T. Darby Works Cited About the Contributors Index"

Reviews

This collection makes an intriguing and important contribution to understanding the experiences and cultural productions of women of color. - Bilinda Straight, editor of Women on the Verge of Home

Author Information

Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Angela L. Cotten is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. They are the coeditors of Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings, also published by SUNY Press.

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