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Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture)

Ilka Saal

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Description:Collusions of Fact and Fiction traces a generational shift in late twentieth-century African American cultural engagements with the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery. With a focus on works by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and visual artist Kara Walker, the book explores how, in comparison to the first wave of neo-slave narratives of the 1970s and 1980s, artists of the 1990s and early 2000s tend to approach the past from the vantage point of a liberal entanglement of fact and fiction as well as a highly playful, often humorous, and sometimes irreverent signifying on entrenched motifs, iconographies, and historiographies. Saal argues that the attempt to reconstruct or recuperate the experience of African Americans under slavery is no longer at stake in the works of artists growing up in the post–Civil Rights era. Instead, they lay bare the discursive dimension of our contemporary understanding of the past and address the continued impact of its various verbal and visual signs upon contemporary identities. In this manner, Parks and Walker stake out new possibilities for engaging the past and inhabiting the present and future. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture). To get started finding Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Collusions of Fact and Fiction traces a generational shift in late twentieth-century African American cultural engagements with the history and legacies of transatlantic slavery. With a focus on works by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and visual artist Kara Walker, the book explores how, in comparison to the first wave of neo-slave narratives of the 1970s and 1980s, artists of the 1990s and early 2000s tend to approach the past from the vantage point of a liberal entanglement of fact and fiction as well as a highly playful, often humorous, and sometimes irreverent signifying on entrenched motifs, iconographies, and historiographies. Saal argues that the attempt to reconstruct or recuperate the experience of African Americans under slavery is no longer at stake in the works of artists growing up in the post–Civil Rights era. Instead, they lay bare the discursive dimension of our contemporary understanding of the past and address the continued impact of its various verbal and visual signs upon contemporary identities. In this manner, Parks and Walker stake out new possibilities for engaging the past and inhabiting the present and future. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture). To get started finding Collusions of Fact and Fiction: Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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