Appetites: Destabilizing the notion of normalcy and deviance through the black woman's body

Sarah Stefana Smith

doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-446-8_14

Appetites: Destabilizing the notion of normalcy and deviance through the black woman's body

Sarah Stefana Smith

African American Studies

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Kenyan visual artist, Wangechi Mutu uses mixed media tools like watercolor, glitter and dirt (among others) as well as magazine clippings in order to create her collage representations. Her series entitled The Arc Collection re-appropriated postcard images from American photographer Carol Beckwith, who in the mid 1970's photographed Maasai women of Kenya and Tanzania.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ruptures: Anti-Colonial & Anti-Racist Feminist Theorizing
Publisher	Sense Publishers
Pages	167-174
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9789462094468
ISBN (Print)	9462094454, 9789462094451
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-446-8_14
State	Published - Nov 1 2013

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