Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics And The Practice Of Freedom by Angela L. C.. details from sapnaonline

Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul explores innovative approaches to analyzing cultural productions through which women of color have challenged and undermined social and political forces that work to oppress them. Emphasizing art-making practices that emerge out of and reflect concrete lived experience, leading contributors to the fields of contemporary psychoanalytic literary analysis, Latin American studies, feminist theory, Native Women's studies, Africana studies, philosophy, and art history examine the relationship between the aesthetic and the political.The focus of the book is on the idea of aesthetic agency through which one develops different modes of expression and creative practices that facilitate personal and social transformation. Aesthetic agency is liberating in a broad sense-it not only frees our creative capacities but also expands our capacity for joy and our abilities to know, to judge, and to act. Artists considered include Nadema Agard, Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo, Daystar/Rosalie Jones, Coco Fusco, Diane Glancy, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Toni Morrison, MeShell Ndegeocello, Marcie Rendon, Ntozake Shange, Lorna Simpson, Roxanne Swentzell, Regina Vater, Kay Walking Stick, and Carrie Mae Weems.Table Of Contents:List of IllustrationsForeword: "Tragedy Fatigue" and "Aesthetic Agency" Joy James James, JoyAcknowledgmentsOn Making and Remaking: An Introduction Christa Davis Acampora Acampora, Christa Davis 1I Resisting Imagination1 Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist Aesthetics Ritch Calvin Calvin, Ritch 212 Everyday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez's Fiction Kelly Oliver Oliver, Kelly 473 Authorizing Desire: Erotic Poetics and the Aisthesis of Freedom in Morrison and Shange Christa Davis Acampora Acampora, Christa Davis 59II Body Agonistes4 MeShell Ndegeocello: Musical Articulations of Black Feminism Martha Mockus Mockus, Martha 815 Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now: Reading the Work of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson Kimberly Lamm Lamm, Kimberly 1036 The Coloniality of Embodiment: Coco Fusco's Postcolonial Genealogies and Semiotic Agonistics Eduardo Mendieta Mendieta, Eduardo 141III Changing the Subject7 Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell: Forming a Wise, Generous, and Beautiful "I Am" Ruth Porritt Porritt, Ruth 1618 The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women's Art: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, Spirituality, and Identity Phoebe Farris Farris, Phoebe 1819 Dalit Women's Literature: A Sense of the Struggle Nandita Gupta Gupta, Nandita 197IV Home is Where the Art is: Shaping Space and Place10 The Role of "Place" in New Zealand Maori Songs of Lament Ailsa L. Smith Smith, Ailsa L. 21311 Theater Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem Renaissance KatherineWilson Wilson, Katherine 23112 Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the Melting Pot: Re/Locations and Homecomings in Native Women's Theater Jaye T. Darby Darby, Jaye T. 247Works Cited 265About the Contributors 283Index 287