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List of Illustrations ix Foreword: “Tragedy Fatigue” and “Aesthetic Agency” xi Joy James Acknowledgments xv On Making and Remaking: An Introduction 1 Christa Davis Acampora I. RESISTING IMAGINATION 1 Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist Aesthetics 21 Ritch Calvin 2 Everyday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez’s Fiction 47 Kelly Oliver 3 Authorizing Desire: Erotic Poetics and the AISTHESIS of Freedom in Morrison and Shange 59 Christa Davis Acampora II. BODY AGONISTES 4 MeShell Ndegéocello: Musical Articulations of Black Feminism 81 Martha Mockus 5 Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now: Reading the Work of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson 103 Kimberly Lamm vii Contents 6 The Coloniality of Embodiment: Coco Fusco’s Postcolonial Genealogies and Semiotic Agonistics 141 Eduardo Mendieta III. CHANGING THE SUBJECT 7 Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell: Forming a Wise, Generous, and Beautiful “I Am” 161 Ruth Porritt 8 The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women’s Art: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, Spirituality, and Identity 181 Phoebe Farris 9 Dalit Women’s Literature: A Sense of the Struggle 197 Nandita Gupta IV. HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS: SHAPING SPACE AND PLACE 10 The Role of “Place” in New Zealand Ma\ori Songs of Lament 213 Ailsa L. Smith 11 Theater Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem Renaissance 231 Katherine Wilson 12 Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the Melting Pot: Re/Locations and Homecomings in Native Women’s Theater 247 Jaye T. Darby Works Cited 265 About the Contributors 283 Index 287 viii CONTENTS ...