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

Schwendener, Martha

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 ...