Our Posteriors, Our Posterity
The problem of embodiment in Suzan-Lori Parks'sVenusand Kara Walker'sCamptown Ladies
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3649858 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Arlene R Keizer (University of California, Irvine, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 200-212 |
| Data de publicação | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533952.2011.603191 |
| OpenAlex | W1980398486 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 2 |
| Referências citadas | 6 |
This article employs art-historical and cultural-studies analytic practices to argue that visual representation of the black female body, specifically the body of the ‘Hottentot Venus’, throws into question the conceptual nature of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus and Kara Walker’s Camptown Ladies. Furthermore, the article contends that the efforts of both playwright and artist to treat Sara Baartman/the ‘Hottentot Venus’ as an abstract concept – the endlessly revivable image of the black woman reduced to her sexual parts and parodied within popular culture – deterritorialises the historical Sara Baartman and imposes US concerns, rather than those of southern Africa, upon her narrative and its afterlife
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Astrobiology · Literature · Narrative · Physics · Political science · Politics · Spectacle · Venus · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Race, History, and American Society · South African History and Culture
| Obras citantes distintas | 2 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 2 |