Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Angela L. Cotten is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. They are the coeditors of Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings, also published by SUNY Press.

"This collection makes an intriguing and important contribution to understanding the experiences and cultural productions of women of color." — Bilinda Straight, editor of Women on the Verge of Home

• List of Illustrations Foreword: "Tragedy Fatigue" and "Aesthetic Agency"Joy James Acknowledgments On Making and Remaking: An IntroductionChrista Davis Acampora I. Resisting Imagination 1. Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist AestheticsRitch Calvin 2. Everyday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez’s FictionKelly Oliver 3. Authorizing Desire: Erotic Poetics and the Aisthesis of Freedom in Morrison and ShangeChrista Davis Acampora II. Body Agonistes 4. MeShell Ndegéocello: Musical Articulations of Black FeminismMartha Mockus 5. Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now: Reading the Work of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna SimpsonKimberly Lamm 6. The Coloniality of Embodiment: Coco Fusco’s Postcolonial Genealogies and Semiotic AgonisticsEduardo Mendieta III. Changing The Subject 7. Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell: Forming a Wise, Generous, and Beautiful "I Am"Ruth Porritt 8. The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women’s Art: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, Spirituality, and IdentityPhoebe Farris 9. Dalit Women’s Literature: A Sense of the StruggleNandita Gupta IV. Home Is Where The Art Is: Shaping Space And Place 10. The Role of "Place" in New Zealand Maori Songs of LamentAilsa L. Smith 11. Theater Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem RenaissanceKatherine Wilson 12. Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the  Melting Pot: Re/Locations and Homecomings in Native Women’s TheaterJaye T. Darby Works Cited About the Contributors Index

Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Angela L. Cotten is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. They are the coeditors of Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings, also published by SUNY Press.

"This collection makes an intriguing and important contribution to understanding the experiences and cultural productions of women of color." — Bilinda Straight, editor of Women on the Verge of Home

• List of Illustrations Foreword: "Tragedy Fatigue" and "Aesthetic Agency"Joy James Acknowledgments On Making and Remaking: An IntroductionChrista Davis Acampora I. Resisting Imagination 1. Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist AestheticsRitch Calvin 2. Everyday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez’s FictionKelly Oliver 3. Authorizing Desire: Erotic Poetics and the Aisthesis of Freedom in Morrison and ShangeChrista Davis Acampora II. Body Agonistes 4. MeShell Ndegéocello: Musical Articulations of Black FeminismMartha Mockus 5. Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now: Reading the Work of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna SimpsonKimberly Lamm 6. The Coloniality of Embodiment: Coco Fusco’s Postcolonial Genealogies and Semiotic AgonisticsEduardo Mendieta III. Changing The Subject 7. Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell: Forming a Wise, Generous, and Beautiful "I Am"Ruth Porritt 8. The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women’s Art: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, Spirituality, and IdentityPhoebe Farris 9. Dalit Women’s Literature: A Sense of the StruggleNandita Gupta IV. Home Is Where The Art Is: Shaping Space And Place 10. The Role of "Place" in New Zealand Maori Songs of LamentAilsa L. Smith 11. Theater Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem RenaissanceKatherine Wilson 12. Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the  Melting Pot: Re/Locations and Homecomings in Native Women’s TheaterJaye T. Darby Works Cited About the Contributors Index

Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Angela L. Cotten is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. They are the coeditors of Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women's Writings, also published by SUNY Press.

"This collection makes an intriguing and important contribution to understanding the experiences and cultural productions of women of color." — Bilinda Straight, editor of Women on the Verge of Home

• List of Illustrations Foreword: "Tragedy Fatigue" and "Aesthetic Agency"Joy James Acknowledgments On Making and Remaking: An IntroductionChrista Davis Acampora I. Resisting Imagination 1. Writing the Xicanista: Ana Castillo and the Articulation of Chicana Feminist AestheticsRitch Calvin 2. Everyday Revolutions, Shifting Power, and Feminine Genius in Julia Alvarez’s FictionKelly Oliver 3. Authorizing Desire: Erotic Poetics and the Aisthesis of Freedom in Morrison and ShangeChrista Davis Acampora II. Body Agonistes 4. MeShell Ndegéocello: Musical Articulations of Black FeminismMartha Mockus 5. Portraits of the Past, Imagined Now: Reading the Work of Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna SimpsonKimberly Lamm 6. The Coloniality of Embodiment: Coco Fusco’s Postcolonial Genealogies and Semiotic AgonisticsEduardo Mendieta III. Changing The Subject 7. Pueblo Sculptor Roxanne Swentzell: Forming a Wise, Generous, and Beautiful "I Am"Ruth Porritt 8. The Syncretism of Native American, Latin American, and African American Women’s Art: Visual Expressions of Feminism, the Environment, Spirituality, and IdentityPhoebe Farris 9. Dalit Women’s Literature: A Sense of the StruggleNandita Gupta IV. Home Is Where The Art Is: Shaping Space And Place 10. The Role of "Place" in New Zealand Maori Songs of LamentAilsa L. Smith 11. Theater Near Us: Librarians, Culture, and Space in the Harlem RenaissanceKatherine Wilson 12. Into the Sacred Circle, Out of the  Melting Pot: Re/Locations and Homecomings in Native Women’s TheaterJaye T. Darby Works Cited About the Contributors Index