Moses, the Egyptian and the Big Black Mammy of the Antebellum South: Freud (with Kara Walker) on Race and History Cover Image

Moses, the Egyptian and the Big Black Mammy of the Antebellum South: Freud (with Kara Walker) on Race and History
Moses, the Egyptian and the Big Black Mammy of the Antebellum South: Freud (with Kara Walker) on Race and History

Author(s): Joan Copjec
Subject(s): Cultural history, Visual Arts, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Culture and social structure , Psychoanalysis
Published by: Институтот за општествени и хуманистички науки – Скопје
Keywords: Kara Walker;Moses and Monotheism; Freud; racism; racial identity;

Summary/Abstract: Nearly all the work of Kara Walker produced thus far including Gone: An Historical Romance Of A Civil War As It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress And Her Heart (1994); The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven (1995); The Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire . A Reconstruction (1995); Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, K.E. B. Walker, Colored (1997) . I cite a few of the titles to give you some flavor of the work . nearly all the work employs the same technique: the adhesion of black paper cut-outs to white gallery walls.

  • Issue Year: 1/2002
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 67-90
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English