Wednesday, February 17, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
2309 Art/Socy
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
"'Committed an Outrage": War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction in the Historical Imagination and Politics of Kara Walker"
Thavolia Glymph is associate professor of African American Studies and History at Duke University. Her 2008 Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household received the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association. Professor Glymph is also the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, economic history, and southern women. Additionally, she was co-editor of two volumes in the Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation series.
Professor Glymph’s talk will focus on the radical nature/performance and revisionist politics of Kara Walker’s "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" and "Bureau of Refugees" series.
Kara Walker is an award winning artist best known for her use of the black and white silhouette, a 19th century women’s or “ladies” art form, to explore issues of gender, sexuality and violence in slavery and now in Civil War and Reconstruction or, more correctly, in our contemporary imaginations of slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction.
For further information, contact Elsa Barkley Brown, Departments of History and Women’s Studies, at [email protected].
2309 Art/Socy
Thavolia Glymph, Duke University
"'Committed an Outrage": War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction in the Historical Imagination and Politics of Kara Walker"
Thavolia Glymph is associate professor of African American Studies and History at Duke University. Her 2008 Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household received the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association. Professor Glymph is also the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, economic history, and southern women. Additionally, she was co-editor of two volumes in the Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation series.
Professor Glymph’s talk will focus on the radical nature/performance and revisionist politics of Kara Walker’s "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" and "Bureau of Refugees" series.
Kara Walker is an award winning artist best known for her use of the black and white silhouette, a 19th century women’s or “ladies” art form, to explore issues of gender, sexuality and violence in slavery and now in Civil War and Reconstruction or, more correctly, in our contemporary imaginations of slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction.
For further information, contact Elsa Barkley Brown, Departments of History and Women’s Studies, at [email protected].
