Overview
A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.
At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling from the loss of her mother and numb to the world around her. She turns inward instead, reading books and composing poetry, eventually falling into the work of artists such as Blondell Cummings, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine OāGrady, and Kara Walker. Through them, she communes with her motherās spirit and legacy, and finds new ways to interrogate her writing and identity.
Wrong Is Not My NameĀ weaves together autobiography, criticism, and theory, and considers how Black women create alternative, queer, and āhystericalā lives through visual culture and performance. In poetic, interdisciplinary essaysācombining analytical and lyrical stream-of-consciousnessāCardwe
Pioneering and inquisitive,Ā Wrong Is Not My NameĀ celebrates Black womanhood, and illuminates the ways in which art and storytelling reside at the core of being human.
This book title, Wrong Is Not My Name (Notes on (Black) Art), ISBN: 9781558613812, by Erica N. Cardwell, published by The Feminist Press at CUNY (March 12, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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