Unmaking race, remaking soul : transformative aesthetics and the practice of freedom / edited by Christa Davis Acampora and Angela L. Cotton.

Other author Acampora, Christa Davis, 1967-
Other author Cotten, Trystan T., 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Christa Davis Acampora and Angela Cotten, "on making and remaking: an introduction" -- Resisting imagination -- Ritch Calvin, "writing the xicanista : Ana Castillo and the articulation of chicana feminist aesthetics" -- Kelly Oliver, "everyday revolutions, shifting power, and feminine genius in Julia Alvarez's fiction" -- Christa Davis Acampora, "authorizing desire : erotic poetics and the aesthesis of freedom in Morrison and Shange " -- Body agonistes -- Martha Mockus, "meshell ndegéocello : musical articulations of Black feminism" -- Kimberly Lamm, "portraits of the past, imagined now : reading the work of Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems" -- Eduardo Mendieta, "the coloniality of embodiment : Coco Fusco's postcolonial genealogies and semiotic agonistics" -- Changing the subject -- Ruth Porritt, "pueblo sculptor Roxanne Swentzell : forming a wise, generous, and beautiful 'I am'" -- Phoebe Farris, "the syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American -- Women's art : visual expressions of feminism, the environment, spirituality, and identity" -- Nandita Gupta, "dalit women's literature : a sense of the struggle" -- Home is where the art is : shaping space and place -- Ailsa I. Smith, "the role of 'place' in New Zealand Maori songs of lament" -- Joy A. James, "home : a cultural production" -- Katherine Wilson, "theatre near us : librarians, culture, and space in the Harlem Renaissance" -- Jaye T. Darby, "into the sacred circle, out of the melting pot : re/locations and homecomings in native women's theater".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.
LCCN 2006032684
ISBN9780791471616 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0791471616 (hardcover : alk. paper)