Introduction: Performing Objects -- Mammy Memory: The Curious Case of Joice Heth, the Ancient Negress -- Passing Performances: Ellen Craft's Fugitive Selves -- Plastic Possibilities: Adrian Piper's Adamant Self-Alienation -- Is This Performance about You?: The Art, Activism, and Black Feminist Critique of Howardena Pindell -- Conclusion: 'I've Been Performing My Whole Life'.
Summary:
"Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, McMillian contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment." Back cover.
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