Reading Response for article: Kara Walker

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Reading Response for article: Kara Walker

1) Text Title: “Making Mourning from Melancholia”: The Art of Kara Walker2) Text Author: Adair Rounthwaite3) Summary of the text

The article portrays Kara Walker's art as a progress from a gloomy attachment to bigoted formations of black American identity to a sorrowful way the self is shaped by a history of domination. Under the Judith Butler's concepts of fundamental melancholia and foreclosed affection, the author argues that conventional imagery in Walker's work addresses on how the subject can never exactly know about the cruel history that formed it ...