Abstract
Aesthetic agency refers to conditions, capacities, and states that inform artistic forms of acting and exerting power on social structures. In resistance to the marginalization of women of color, aesthetic agency is exercised through creative acts of culture-making and critique of such practices to challenge domination and representation of the oppressed other. To support this work as a feminist Christian ethicist, I construct a theological framework for aesthetic agency. This paper proposes a theological understanding of transformative aesthetics and then describes the exercise of aesthetic agency for Christian communities by using a television special, Black Girls Rock! as an example.
DOI
10.5642/lux.201301.13
Recommended Citation
Edwards, Elise
(2013)
"A Christian Understanding of Aesthetic Agency: A Theological Framework of Resistance to Cultural Imperialism,"
LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University:
Vol. 2:
Iss.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/lux/vol2/iss1/13
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