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Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art

Name: Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art
ISBN: 9781000627107

The Black Female Fantastic

Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton,

152 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art

The Black Female Fantastic

Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton,

About this book

This book examines Afrofuturism in African American art, focusing specifically on images of black women and how those images expand the discourse of representation in visual culture of the United States.

This volume defines a visual language of Afrofuturism that includes materiality, temporality, and black liberation. Elizabeth Hamilton discusses the visual progenitors of Afrofuturism. In the artworks of Pierre Bennu, Sanford Biggers, Alison Saar, Mequitta Ahuja, Robert Pruitt, Renee Cox, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Alma Thomas, and Harriet Powers, the fantastic narratives of Afrofuturism are uncovered through in-depth case studies. These case studies engage with Afrofuturism as a black feminist visual theory that helps to unburden the images of black women from the stereotypical visual scripts that are so common in contemporary visual culture of the United States.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, American literature, gender studies, popular culture, and African American studies.

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