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Research Article| December 01 2019 The Poetics of Carrie Mae Weems's Documentary Portraits Past and Present: Explorations of Grace, Love, and Justice Andrea Liss Andrea Liss Andrea Liss is Full Professor Emerita of Visual Culture and Cultural Theory in the School of Arts at California State University San Marcos where her teaching, scholarship, and community engagement focus on the intersections among feminist theory, photography, and social justice. She is the author of Feminist Art and the Maternal (2009) and Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust (1999). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2019) 46 (4): 57–73. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.464005 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Andrea Liss; The Poetics of Carrie Mae Weems's Documentary Portraits Past and Present: Explorations of Grace, Love, and Justice. Afterimage 1 December 2019; 46 (4): 57–73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.464005 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) takes the reader through a saga of injustice that finds a young black man in prison near Harlem in the 1970s. This is a love story—the lustful, playful kind—between Fony and Tish, intertwined with Tish's family's trust, which strives to keep the couple strong throughout his incarceration and her pregnancy. This is a devastating portrayal of a family that is armed with irony, grace, and intelligence but that still cannot protect the couple from the hate stacked against them. The young woman's narrative voice conveys the terror and the tenderness. The groans of painful histories, the sighs of joyful family communion, and the acute witnessings of a woman in Baldwin's novel are akin to the voices that resonate throughout Carrie Mae Weems's incisive photographic and multimedia work from the mid-1980s to the end of this current decade. My attraction to the... You do not currently have access to this content.
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