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OSt |
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20241014155549.0 |
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150415s2015 nyuaf b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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2015014811 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781479802111 |
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hardback : alkaline paper |
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9781479852475 |
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paperback : alkaline paper |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
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pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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n-us--- |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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McMillan, Uri, |
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author. |
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23059 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Embodied avatars : |
| Remainder of title |
genealogies of black feminist art and performance / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Uri McMillan. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
New York University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2015] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xx, 283 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : |
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illustrations (some colour) ; |
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23 cm. |
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text |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia. |
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volume |
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rdacarrier. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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Sexual cultures. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-282) and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction: Performing Objects -- 1. Mammy Memory: The Curious Case of Joice Heth, the Ancient Negress -- 2. Passing Performances: Ellen Craft’s Fugitive Selves -- 3. Plastic Possibilities: Adrian Piper’s Adamant Self-Alienation -- 4. Is This Performance about You? The Art, Activism, and Black Feminist Critique of Howardena Pindell -- Conclusion: “I’ve Been Performing My Whole Life” |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performanceWinner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or cultureWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchWinner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchTracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-firstcentury, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raisednew 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 adroitprojection of their performances into other representational mediums. A bold rethinking ofperformance art, Embodied Avatars analyzes daring performances of alterity staged by“ancient negress” Joice Heth and fugitive slave Ellen Craft, seminal artists Adrian Piper andHowardena Pindell, and contemporary visual and music artists Simone Leigh and NickiMinaj. Fusing performance studies with literary analysis and visual culture studies,McMillan offers astute readings of performances staged in theatrical and "idian locales,from freak shows to the streets of 1970s New York; in literary texts, from artists’ writingsto slave narratives; and in visual and digital mediums, including engravings, photography,and video art. Throughout, McMillan reveals how these performers manipulated thedimensions of objecthood, black performance art, and avatars in a powerful re-scripting oftheir bodies while enacting artful forms of social misbehavior. |
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Performance art |
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United States. |
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23060 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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African American women performance artists. |
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23061 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Feminism in art. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
23062 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in art. |
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23063 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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Sexual cultures. |
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1593 |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |
