An Analysis of Kara Walker’s Mural-Sized Works Illustrating Nineteenth Century Slavery (511 words, 3 pages)
Kara Walker produces mural-sized, paper cutout silhouettes to create a densecaustic narrative of nineteenth-century, antebellum slavery. She details theblack-paper cutouts with stereotypical characters pickaninnies, sambos,mammies, slave mistresses, and masters. My first impression of her work is thatshe elegantly portrays scenes from African American plantation life however, Ibecame aware that sexual, ...
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