{"product_id":"9781479852475-embodied-avatars","title":"Embodied Avatars","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGenealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and\/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first\u003cbr\u003ecentury, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-\u003cbr\u003eobjectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised\u003cbr\u003enew ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.\u003cbr\u003eMcMillan reframes the concept of the avatar in the service of black performance art,\u003cbr\u003edescribing black women performers’ skillful manipulation of synthetic selves and adroit\u003cbr\u003eprojection of their performances into other representational mediums. A bold rethinking of\u003cbr\u003eperformance art, Embodied Avatars analyzes daring performances of alterity staged by\u003cbr\u003e“ancient negress” Joice Heth and fugitive slave Ellen Craft, seminal artists Adrian Piper and\u003cbr\u003eHowardena Pindell, and contemporary visual and music artists Simone Leigh and Nicki\u003cbr\u003eMinaj. Fusing performance studies with literary analysis and visual culture studies,\u003cbr\u003eMcMillan offers astute readings of performances staged in theatrical and quotidian locales,\u003cbr\u003efrom freak shows to the streets of 1970s New York; in literary texts, from artists’ writings\u003cbr\u003eto slave narratives; and in visual and digital mediums, including engravings, photography,\u003cbr\u003eand video art. Throughout, McMillan reveals how these performers manipulated the\u003cbr\u003edimensions of objecthood, black performance art, and avatars in a powerful re-scripting of\u003cbr\u003etheir bodies while enacting artful forms of social misbehavior.\u003cbr\u003eThe Critical Lede interview with Uri McMillan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40809113387105,"sku":"9781479852475","price":27.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/62973b7775736096502480f55091a9be_a258f832-5035-41f5-b3c4-c4907951f806.png?v=1687405731","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781479852475-embodied-avatars","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}