Wrong Is Not My Name
Erica N. Cardwell
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Beschreibung
A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.
At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling from the loss of her mother and numb to the world around her. She turns inward instead, reading books and composing poetry, eventually falling into the work of artists such as Blondell Cummings, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Kara Walker. Through them, she communes with her mother’s spirit and legacy, and finds new ways to interrogate her writing and identity.
Wrong Is Not My Name weaves together autobiography, criticism, and theory, and considers how Black women create alternative, queer, and “hysterical” lives through visual culture and performance. In poetic, interdisciplinary essays—combining analytical and lyrical stream-of-consciousness—Cardwell examines archetypes such as the lascivious Jezebel, the caretaking Mammy, and the elusive Sapphire to formulate new and inventive ways to write about art.
Pioneering and inquisitive, Wrong Is Not My Name celebrates Black womanhood, and illuminates the ways in which art and storytelling reside at the core of being human.
Kundenbewertungen
Minor Feelings, Andy Warhol Foundation Writers Grant, Citizen Claudia Rankine, Black lesbian writing, art criticism, Blondell Cummings, feminist art theory, Lorraine O’Grady, queer art criticism, Aisha Sabatino Sloane, Autotheory as Feminist Practice, Black feminist writing, Olivia Laing, Argonauts Maggie Nelson, Black feminist theory, Funny Weather, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Raquel Gutierrez, Black femme writing