Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives by Janet Neary (Engl

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Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists' use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints.

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Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive of ante- and postbellum literary slave narratives as well as contemporary visual art, Janet Neary brings visual and performance theory to bear on the genre's central problematic: that the ex-slave narrator must be both object and subject of his or her own testimony.Taking works by current-day visual artists, including Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, and Ellen Driscoll, Neary employs their representational strategies to decode the visual work performed in nineteenth-century literary narratives by Elizabeth Keckley, Solomon Northup, William Craft, Henry Box Brown, and others. She focuses on the textual visuality of these narratives to illustrate how their authors use the logic of the slave narrative against itself as a way to undermine the epistemology of the genre and to offer a model of visuality as intersubjective recognition rather than objective division.

Author Biography

Janet Neary is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-century African American Literature and Culture in the English Department, Hunter College, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Fugitive Testimony Chapter 1: Sight Unseen: Contemporary Visual Slave Narratives Chapter 2: Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Use of the Slave Narrative Form Chapter 3: Optical Allusions: Textual Visuality in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Chapter 4: "The Shadow of the Cloud": Racial Speculation and Cultural Vision in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave Chapter 5: Gestures Against Movements: Henry Box Brown and Economies of Narrative Performance Epilogue: Racial Violence, Racial Capitalism, and Reading Revolution Harriet Jacobs, John Jones, Kerry James Marshall, and Kyle Baker Acknowledgments Index

Review

"In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conventions of authentication. This is an important book that demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race and representation persist in the present." -- -Shawn Michelle Smith School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Long Description

Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive of ante- and postbellum literary slave narratives as well as contemporary visual art, Janet Neary brings visual and performance theory to bear on the genre's central problematic: that the ex-slave narrator must be both object and subject of his or her own testimony. Taking works by current-day visual artists, including Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, and Ellen Driscoll, Neary employs their representational strategies to decode the visual work performed in nineteenth-century literary narratives by Elizabeth Keckley, Solomon Northup, William Craft, Henry Box Brown, and others. She focuses on the textual visuality of these narratives to illustrate how their authors use the logic of the slave narrative against itself as a way to undermine the epistemology of the genre and to offer a model of visuality as intersubjective recognition rather than objective division.

Review Text

"In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conventions of authentication. This is an important book that demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race and representation persist in the present." --Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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"In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conventions of authentication. This is an important book that demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race and representation persist in the present."--Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago "For researchers focused on the political and social dynamics of Southern society, this text is recommended."--Civil War News

Details ISBN0823272893 Author Janet Neary Short Title FUGITIVE TESTIMONY Publisher Fordham University Press Language English ISBN-10 0823272893 ISBN-13 9780823272891 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-11-01 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 704.949306362 UK Release Date 2016-11-01 AU Release Date 2016-11-01 NZ Release Date 2016-11-01 US Release Date 2016-11-01 Pages 232 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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