{"product_id":"consuming-stories-9780520383333","title":"Consuming Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artist's book and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker's production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walker's sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, the neo-slave narrative, and the fairy tale and with internationally known stories including Roots, Beloved, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Walker's interruption of these familiar works , along with her generative use of the familiar in unexpected and destabilizing ways, reveals the extent to which genre-based narrative conventions depend \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peabody asserts that narrative is a necessary interpretative scheme with which to approach Walker’s art, and the author gives deep histories to some of the most interesting moments in Walker’s narrative engagement. . . . [A] remarkable book which spans Walker’s nearly twenty-year long career to date…” * Oxford Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"This excellent book contributes greatly to the plethora of existing scholarship on Kara Walker.\" * Panorama *\u003cbr\u003e“Rebecca Peabody’s lyrically written, provocative, and smart new take on Kara Walker suggests that there is, in fact, much more to say about this artist. . . . Peabody has set the bar high. Not only does she rigorously review the copious literature on Walker, but she has taken considerable trouble to familiarize herself with Walker’s own words and ideas in order to present as thorough a critique of this enigmatic artist. Brava.” * Woman’s Art Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Kara\u003cbr\u003e Walker, Storyteller \u003cbr\u003e 1. The End of Uncle Tom \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Pop of Racial Violence \u003cbr\u003e 3. American Romance in Black and White \u003cbr\u003e 4. The International Appeal of Race \u003cbr\u003e 5. Storytelling in Film and Video \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Illustration Credits \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402953498967,"sku":"9780520383333","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520383333.jpg?v=1730481953","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/consuming-stories-9780520383333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}