The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance Rosemary Sullivan from speculative fiction to performance

from speculative fiction to performance art

a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality

People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slavery

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The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance Rosemary Sullivan from speculative fiction to performanceCarole Anne Taylor explores the network of cultural relations that links tragic and comic theory to views of what can or cannot be known or felt and what can or cannot be done. Reconceiving tragic and comic resistance through readings of works by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, and South African born Bessie Head, she demonstrates how these writers elaborate the interconnections between a comedy that affirms wholesome