SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Art: Kara Walker

»Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America

I n f o r m a t i o n

»In 2005, she created the exhibit "8 Possible Beginnings" or: "The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture," which introduced moving images and sound. This helped further immerse the viewers into her dark worlds. In this exhibit, the silhouettes are used as shadow puppets. Additionally, she uses the voice of herself and her daughter to suggest how the heritage of early American slavery has affected her image as an artist and woman of color.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: U.S. History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Heintz, Lauren. »Inhuman Reproduction: Sexual Violence and the Biopolitics of Slavery.« 38^th Annual Meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. Atlanta 2018.

Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: U.S. History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bianchini, Ginevra. »The “Unreliable Narrator of a Historical Manifesto”: Reimagining and Re-historicising Depictions of Sexual Violence During American Slavery in Kara Walker’s Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions.« Angles No. 20 (2025).

II. Speaker Index