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Appropriating African Belief Systems: Renée Stout Re-Writes Her Self
| العنوان: | Appropriating African Belief Systems: Renée Stout Re-Writes Her Self |
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| المؤلفون: | Pierre, Alix |
| بيانات النشر: | Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | OpenEdition |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | race, études afro-américaines, diaspora noire, afrique noire, post-racialité, postblackness, identité afro-américaine, identité noire, expatriation, afro-américaine, internationalisme noir, African-American studies, Black diaspora, Black Africa, post-raciality, post-blackness, African-American identity, Black identity, African-American, Black internationalism, Social Issues, SOC007000, JFFN |
| الوصف: | The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art—the only one in the nation dedicated to visual art made by and about women of the African Diaspora—is currently hosting an exhibition entitled Material Girls. The show features the work of seven female artists who use ordinary material such as black plastic combs, plastic grocery bags, and car tires, rebar, and metal bed frames to create art. Of particular interest is Renée Stout whose art is greatly informed by African belief systems. The artist raises the question of the complexity of (spiritual) identity formation for Americans of African descent who live in a Judeo-Christian society. What (spiritual) message is reflected back to African Americans in the faces of the majority population? What do they learn from the media about their (spiritual) selves? How are they (spiritually) represented in the cultural images around them? Or are they missing from the picture altogether? Stout acknowledges that much of her work deals with botanicas and herbal remedies: ‘I like to deal with these women who have strong personalities and create tableaux to them’. The paper examines her use of a healer alter ego—Fatima Mayfield—in the writing of what she considers to be ‘the last missing piece’ in the narrative of the African Diaspora. The analysis of the installation piece ‘The Thinking Room’, Fatima’s parlor, reveals how through the weaving of numerology, New Orleans Vodou, Nigerian Ifá and Congo Munkisi Stout’s aesthetic proceeds to (re) claim African-based spirituality. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book part |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-2-36781-220-5 978-2-36781-388-2 2-36781-220-9 2-36781-388-4 |
| تدمد: | 97823678 |
| Relation: | urn:doi:10.4000/books.pulm.9598; http://books.openedition.org/pulm/9598; urn:isbn:9782367812205; urn:eisbn:9782367813882 |
| الاتاحة: | http://books.openedition.org/pulm/9598 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.10CC2004 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| ردمك: | 9782367812205 9782367813882 2367812209 2367813884 |
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| تدمد: | 97823678 |