Aesthetics of Excess

The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment

Jillian Hernandez (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1110-1 (ISBN)

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Heavy makeup, gaudy jewelry, dramatic hairstyles, and clothes that are considered cheap, fake, too short, too tight, or too masculine: working-class Black and Latina girls and women are often framed as embodying "excessive" styles that are presumed to indicate sexual deviance. In Aesthetics of Excess Jillian Hernandez examines how middle-class discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color. At the same time, their style can be a source of cultural capital when appropriated by the contemporary art scene. Drawing on her community arts work with Black and Latina girls in Miami, Hernandez analyzes the art and self-image of these girls alongside works produced by contemporary artists and pop musicians such as Wangechi Mutu, Kara Walker, and Nicki Minaj. Through these relational readings, Hernandez shows how notions of high and low culture are complicated when women and girls of color engage in cultural production and how they challenge the policing of their bodies and sexualities through artistic authorship.

Jillian Hernandez is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies at the University of Florida.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Interlude One 29
1. Reading Black and Latina Embodiment in Miami 37
2. Sexual-Aesthetic Excess: Or, How Chonga Girls Make Class Burn 63
3. "Fine as Hell": The Aesthetic Erotics of Masculinity 99
Interlude Two 133
4. Rococo Pink: The Power of Nicki Minaj's Aesthetics of Fakery 145
Interlude Three 187
5. Encounters with Excess: Girls Creating Art, Theory, and Sexual Bodies 201
Interlude Four 233
Epilogue 251
Notes 271
References 279
Index 293

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	120 color illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-1110-6 / 1478011106
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1110-1 / 9781478011101
Zustand	Neuware