Davida Fernandez-Barkan

Bio

Davida Fernandez-Barkan is Teaching Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She holds an AB, AM, and PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University and an MA in Curating the Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Contributions

Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Late-Colonial Collage

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By the fifth line of Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem, the author has already invoked advertisements for three different products. The “ZIG-ZAG” cigarette papers, “LION NOIR” shoe polish, and “CACAO BLOOKER” hot chocolate posters she mentions—presumably glued to the walls of the “NORD-SUD” metro line she names beforehand—are united not only by their commodity status, but also by the particular kind of imagery mobilized to promote their sale. The head of the “Zig-Zag man” that appeared on posters at...

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poetry colonialism race