Introduction
Skin, Surface, Sensorium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4516990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uri Mcmillan (Departments of English, African American Studies, and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2018.1427351 |
| OpenAlex | W2793666099 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 30 |
This introduction contextualizes this special issue of Women & Performance by examining surface as an object of inquiry across a variety of fields, including psychoanalysis, literary studies, sensation and affect studies, and art history. The editor of this special issue links earlier discussions of the relation between surface and depth to more recent interdisciplinary work in black diaspora studies highlighting the convergence of race, surface, and aesthetics. Through an engagement with the interplay between surface, skin, and the senses; black contemporary art in the United States; and the video work of performer Grace Jones, the editor suggests the sensuous and slippery performance work that surface play enables
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Convergence (economics · Diaspora · Performing arts · Race (biology · Relation (database · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Communication · Gender Studies
The Skin of the Film
Troubling Vision
Notes from the Surface of the Image
Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left
South of Pico
Territories of the Soul
The Witch’s Flight
Funk the Erotic
Feeling Brown, Feeling Down
Listening to Images
“Gimme Gimme This… Gimme Gimme That”
Williams, Walker, and Shine
The Fold
From surface to depth, between psychoanalysis and affect
Introduction
Skins, Tattoos, and Susceptibility
Surface Reading
Feeling like a woman, looking like a man, sounding like a no-no
Posing in Prison
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |