“The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead”:Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990–2000
(2019)
Book Chapter
Elstob, I. (2019). “The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead”:Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990–2000. In L. Aje, & N. Gachon (Eds.), Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World. Routledge
This chapter examines artworks produced in the 1990s by Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon, and Lorna Simpson that combine historical and contemporary signifiers to visualize American history and its afterlives. Using literary and narratological models of... Read More about “The End is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead”:Time and Textuality in African American Visualizations of the Historical Past, 1990–2000.