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Uri McMillan Embodied Avatars (Hardback) Sexual Cultures. Author: Uri McMillan. The Critical Lede interview with Uri McMillan. Series: Sexual Cultures. Format: Hardback. Item Height: 229mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Language: English. Genre: Society & Culture. Further DetailsTitle: Embodied Avatars Condition: New Subtitle: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance EAN: 9781479802111 Format: Hardback Author: Uri McMillan ISBN: 9781479802111 Publisher: New York University Press Release Date: 11/04/2015 Description: How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment. McMillan reframes the concept of the avatar in the service of black performance art, describing black women performers' skillful manipulation of synthetic selves and adroit projection of their performances into other representational mediums. A bold rethinking of performance art, Embodied Avatars analyzes daring performances of alterity staged by "ancient negress" Joice Heth and fugitive slave Ellen Craft, seminal artists Adrian Piper and Howardena Pindell, and contemporary visual and music artists Simone Leigh and Nicki Minaj. Fusing performance studies with literary analysis and visual culture studies, McMillan offers astute readings of performances staged in theatrical and quotidian locales, from freak shows to the streets of 1970s New York; in literary texts, from artists' writings to slave narratives; and in visual and digital mediums, including engravings, photography, and video art. Throughout, McMillan reveals how these performers manipulated the dimensions of objecthood, black performance art, and avatars in a powerful re-scripting of their bodies while enacting artful forms of social misbehavior. The Critical Lede interview with Uri McMillan Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 567g Series: Sexual Cultures Release Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
