Embodied Avatars av Uri McMillan

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<p><b>How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance</b><br/><br/>Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture<br/><br/>Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research<br/><br/>Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research<br/><br/>Tracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first<br/>century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-<br/>objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised<br/>new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.<br/>McMilla