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Kimberly Juanita Brown explores the literary and visual representations of how black women bear the marks of slavery, centers black women in narratives of slavery, and uncovers and critiques the refusal to see the violence done to black women's bodies.

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"The Repeating Body offers a nuanced analysis grounded in detailed readings of embodiment in black diasporic and especially black feminist artistic works. . . . In this thoughtful study, Brown is probing the limits of the very stories that she understands as technologies of survival." -- S. Trimble * Contemporary Women's Writing *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Visualizing the Body of the Black Atlantic 1

1. Black Rapture: Corporeal Afterimage and Transnational Desire 18

2. Fragmented Figurations of the Maternal 57

3. The Boundaries of Excess 96

4. The Return: Conjuring the Figure, Following the Form 138

Conclusion: Photographic Incantations of the Visual 177

Notes 195

Bibliography 229

Index 245

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 25/09/2015
      ISBN13: 9780822359296, 978-0822359296
      ISBN10: 0822359294
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Kimberly Juanita Brown explores the literary and visual representations of how black women bear the marks of slavery, centers black women in narratives of slavery, and uncovers and critiques the refusal to see the violence done to black women's bodies.

      Trade Review
      "The Repeating Body offers a nuanced analysis grounded in detailed readings of embodiment in black diasporic and especially black feminist artistic works. . . . In this thoughtful study, Brown is probing the limits of the very stories that she understands as technologies of survival." -- S. Trimble * Contemporary Women's Writing *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix

      Introduction: Visualizing the Body of the Black Atlantic 1

      1. Black Rapture: Corporeal Afterimage and Transnational Desire 18

      2. Fragmented Figurations of the Maternal 57

      3. The Boundaries of Excess 96

      4. The Return: Conjuring the Figure, Following the Form 138

      Conclusion: Photographic Incantations of the Visual 177

      Notes 195

      Bibliography 229

      Index 245

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