TY - JOUR AU - Bourke, Melanie PY - 2012/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Uncanny Insurrection: Debating Negativity in the Work of Kara Walker JF - Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies JA - JCACS VL - 10 IS - 2 SE - Provocations DO - 10.25071/1916-4467.36279 UR - https://jcacs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jcacs/article/view/36279 SP - 120-132 AB - Most well known for her large-scale silhouette installations, Kara Walker offers a critique of African-American history, as well as current cultural conditions, through a series of images that are a mixture of beautiful and grotesque, tranquil and violent, real and fantasized. Her work has provoked both criticism and commendation. In this paper, I bring Deborah Britzman’s (2009) educational theory into conversation with Mark Reinhardt’s (2007) aesthetic theory to examine the debates around Walker’s work through the questions: How might we read the anxieties brought about by Walker’s work? And, what might her work bring to bear on education? ER -