Kara Walker: Sikkema Jenkins & Co.(graphic arts exhibition)

Narrative, as Toni Morrison pointed out at the height of pomo metafiction, might be an exhausted concept for white male writers who regard formal experimentation as a higher calling. But the unmediated African-American female voice is a newer entity both in fiction and in contemporary art, and one for whom narrative is still far from used up.

There's a narrative somewhere in Kara Walker's second film, Eight Possible Beginnings Or: The Creation of African-America, Parts 1-8, A Moving Picture By: Kara E. Walker, 2005, though it's resolutely nonlinear, continually wandering off and ...

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