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Fugitive Testimony : On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives / Janet Neary.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823272891
  • 9780823272921
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62092 23
LOC classification:
  • E444 .N43 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Representational Static -- 1. Sight Unseen: Contemporary Visual Slave Narratives -- 2. Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Use of the Slave Narrative Form -- 3. Optical Allusions: Textual Visuality in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom -- 4. "Th e Shadow of the Cloud": Racial Speculation and Cultural Vision in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave -- 5. Gestures Against Movements: Henry Box Brown and Economies of Narrative Performance -- Epilogue. Racial Violence, Racial Capitalism, and Reading Revolution: Harriet Jacobs, John Jones, Kerry James Marshall, and Kyle Baker -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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 to bear on the genre's central problematic: that the ex-slave narrator must be both object and subject of his or her own testimony.Taking works by current-day visual artists, including Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, and Ellen Driscoll, Neary employs their representational strategies to decode the visual work performed in nineteenth-century literary narratives by Elizabeth Keckley, Solomon Northup, William Craft, Henry Box Brown, and others. She focuses on the textual visuality of these narratives to illustrate how their authors use the logic of the slave narrative against itself as a way to undermine the epistemology of the genre and to offer a model of visuality as intersubjective recognition rather than objective division.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Representational Static -- 1. Sight Unseen: Contemporary Visual Slave Narratives -- 2. Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Use of the Slave Narrative Form -- 3. Optical Allusions: Textual Visuality in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom -- 4. "Th e Shadow of the Cloud": Racial Speculation and Cultural Vision in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave -- 5. Gestures Against Movements: Henry Box Brown and Economies of Narrative Performance -- Epilogue. Racial Violence, Racial Capitalism, and Reading Revolution: Harriet Jacobs, John Jones, Kerry James Marshall, and Kyle Baker -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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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 to bear on the genre's central problematic: that the ex-slave narrator must be both object and subject of his or her own testimony.Taking works by current-day visual artists, including Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, and Ellen Driscoll, Neary employs their representational strategies to decode the visual work performed in nineteenth-century literary narratives by Elizabeth Keckley, Solomon Northup, William Craft, Henry Box Brown, and others. She focuses on the textual visuality of these narratives to illustrate how their authors use the logic of the slave narrative against itself as a way to undermine the epistemology of the genre and to offer a model of visuality as intersubjective recognition rather than objective division.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)