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Finding their voice: Identifying signifiers of women's agency and empowerment in the work of Haitian women artists

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Date Issued:
1999
Summary:
Although the work of women artists has been widely discussed within feminist scholarship from a Euro-American perspective, there is currently little published discourse on the visual art produced by Third-World women within the context of postcolonial and Black feminist theories. This study explores the hypothesis that using the lens of postcolonial and Black feminist theories to examine the work of women artists situated in a Third World environment may identify signifiers of women's agency and empowerment.
Title: Finding their voice: Identifying signifiers of women's agency and empowerment in the work of Haitian women artists.
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Name(s): Kirchen, Anita Mary
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Beoku-Betts, Josephine, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1999
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 134 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Although the work of women artists has been widely discussed within feminist scholarship from a Euro-American perspective, there is currently little published discourse on the visual art produced by Third-World women within the context of postcolonial and Black feminist theories. This study explores the hypothesis that using the lens of postcolonial and Black feminist theories to examine the work of women artists situated in a Third World environment may identify signifiers of women's agency and empowerment.
Identifier: 9780599540620 (isbn), 15733 (digitool), FADT15733 (IID), fau:12489 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1999.
Subject(s): Art, Haitian--Women artists, Black--History and criticism
Feminist theory
Feminism and art--Haiti
Minority women artists--Developing countries
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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