Moses, the Egyptian and the Big Black Mammy of the Antebellum South: Freud (with Kara Walker) on Race and History
Moses, the Egyptian and the Big Black Mammy of the Antebellum South: Freud (with Kara Walker) on Race and History

Summary/Abstract: Nearly all the work of Kara Walker produced thus far including Gone: An Historical Romance Of A Civil War As It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress And Her Heart (1994); The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven (1995); The Battle of Atlanta: Being the Narrative of a Negress in the Flames of Desire . A Reconstruction (1995); Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, K.E. B. Walker, Colored (1997) . I cite a few of the titles to give you some flavor of the work . nearly all the work employs the same technique: the adhesion of black paper cut-outs to white gallery walls.

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