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Meta Warrick Fuller. In repositioning Meta Warrick Fuller's Ethopia Awakening
(1921) within a feminist context, I will draw on that ...
... Brown, Nelson A. Primus, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Meta Vaux Warrick
Fuller had to produce pieces of art appealing to the judges of that art. ...
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In repositioning Meta Warrick Fuller's Ethopia Awakening (1921) within a feminist context, I will draw on that critical Pan-Africanist text, Emancipation and the Freed in Sculpture (1916) by Freeman Murray. Murray's groundbreaking illustration of negative stereotype in visual art was an intellectual argument for black self-determination. Pan-African art criticism gained mass appeal during the Harlem Renaissance with the publishing of The New Negro (1925), by philosopher Alain Locke. In his book, he prescribed the reclamation of African culture for growing numbers of professional African American artists. Both Murray's and Locke's theories were closely associated with W.E.B. Du Bois' promotion of positive images of blacks. From their two perspectives Fuller's Ethopia Awakening was deemed the visual epitome of the "Talented Tenth" movement.
Mary Schmidt Campbell attributes the influence for Ethopia Awakening to Du Boisian philosophy, which "emphasized the Black Americans' common African heritage." Current scholarship by Richard Powell cites Judith Wilson's claim that the "utopian, Pan Africanist novel" Ethiopia Unbound (1911) by west African activist lawyer, J.E. Casely Hayford as Fuller's source of inspiration. In response, I strongly suggest that Ethopia Awakening was not the epitome of Du Boisian philosophy or any other Mr. Hayford's semi-autobiographical novel. Rather, it was the manifestation of Fuller's own Pan-Africanist feminism recognizing her collaboration with Garveyite feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford (J.E. Hayford's ex-wife) in 1920 to build an all girls school in Sierra Leone.
It makes sense that the initial inspiration for Ethopia Awakening was Fuller's understanding of Murray's call for an interventionist avant-garde. Fuller proposed to make her own version of an Africa figure after critically reading his manuscript, around 1915. Ethopia Awakening was a response to the pleas of the intelligentsia that proclaimed the spiritual and...
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