Search Results - "Farm Security Administration"

Sightations in Black: Ekphrasis and the African American Ophthalmic Text by Turner, Christopher

“…Chapter two focuses on Ellison’s involvement with mid-century photographic practices and argues that Invisible Man’s ekphrastic photographs and bildungsroman structure operate in bringing to crisis the contemporary documentary photographic practices of the Farm Security Administration. The final chapter argues that Walker’s representation of visual culture in The Temple of My Familiar seeks to disrupt Western paradigms of power that have violently subjugated and rendered black female identity invisible.…”
Get full text