Michele Wallace

Dark Designs and Visual Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

"I can hardly think of a living critic who is as courageous as Michele Wallace--she says things no one else dares to--and this collection proves just how consistent her bravery has been over the years."--Andrew Ross

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 163mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 835g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334279
• ISBN-10: 0822334275
• Artikelnr.: 21417839

Autorenporträt

Michele Wallace is Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory and Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman. She has written for numerous popular and scholarly publications, including The Village Voice, The New York Times, Emerge, Aperture, Ms., October, and Renaissance Noire.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part I. The Autobiographical: 1989 through 2001
1. Whose Town? Questioning Community and Identity 81
2. Places I've Lived 85
3. Engaging and Escaping in 1994 88
4. To Hell and Back: On the Road with Black Feminism in the '60s and '70s
5. Censorship and Self-Censorship 111
6. An Interview 114
Part II. Mass Culture and Popular Journalism
7. Watching Arsenio 127
8. Black Stereotypes in Hollywood Films: "I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout
Birthin' No Babies!" 130
9. When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music Is Rap 134
10. Storytellers: The Thomas-Hill Affair 138
11. Talking about the Gulf 141
12. Beyond Assimilation 144
13. "Why Won't Women Relate to 'Justice'": Losing Her Voice 147
14. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Why Americans Can't Deal with Black Feminist
Intellectuals 149
15. Miracle in East New York 161
Part III. New York Postmodernism and Black Cultural Studies
16. The Politics of Location:
Cinema/Theory/Literature/Ethnicity/Sexuality/Me 167
17. Black Feminist Criticism: A Politics of Location and Beloved 179
18. Why Are There No Great Black Artists? The Problem of Visuality in
African American Culture 184
19. High Mass 195
20. Symposium on Intellectual Correctness 197
21. The Culture War within the Culture Wars 202
22. Boyz N the Hood and Jungle Fever 215
Part IV. Multiculturalism in the Arts
23. Race, Gender, and Psychoanalysis in Forties Films 223
24. Multicultural Blues: An Interview with Michele Wallace 238
25. Multiculturalism and Oppositionality 249
26. Black Women in Popular Culture: From Stereotype to Heroine 264
27. The Search for the Good Enough Mammy: Multiculturalism, Popular
Culture, and Psychoanalysis 275
Part V. Henry Louis Gates and African American Poststructuralism
28. Henry Louis Gates: A Race Man and a Scholar 289
29. If You Can't Join 'Em, Beat 'Em: Stanley Crouch and Shaharazad Ali 297
30. Let's Get Serious: Marching with the Million 309
31. Out of Step with the Million Man March 311
32. Neither Fish nor Fowl: The Crisis of African American Gender Relations
314
33. The Problem with Black Masculinity and Celebrity 318
34. The Fame Game 324
35. Skip Gates's Africa 328
Part VI. Queer Theory and Visual Culture
36. Defacing History 339
37. When Dream Girls Grow Old 353
38. The French Collection 357
39. Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Problem of the Visual in
Afro-American Culture 364
40. A Fierce Flame: Marlon Riggs 379
41. "Harlem on My Mind" 382
42. Questions on Feminism 386
43. Feminism, Race, and the Division of Labor 390
44. Doin' the Right Thing: Ten Years after She's Gotta Have It 401
45. The Gap Alternative 410
46. Art on My Mind 417
47. Pictures Can Lie 422
48. The Hottentot Venus 426
49. Angels in America, Paris is Burning, and Queer Theory 430
50. Toshi Reagon's Birthday 454
51. Cheryl Dunye: Sexin' the Watermelon 457
52. The Prison House of Culture: Why African Art? Why the Guggenheim? Why
Now? 460
53. Black Female Spectatorship 474
54. Bamboozled: The Archive 486
Index 495