A Black Feminist Sense of Place in the Louisiana of Lemonade and The Louisiana Project
Sponsor(s): Women's Studies Program
Centering on the sugar plantations of Southern Louisiana, in this talk, LaKisha Simmons explores the site/sight of memory in Beyoncé Knowles-Carter's Lemonade and Carrie Mae Weems' The Louisiana Project, alongside the memories of formerly enslaved women and the voices of Jim Crow sharecroppers. Simmons asks how a black feminist sense of place engages with our haunting histories, landscapes of the present/past, and embodied memories.
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