The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Woman’s Fiction
Remembering Esperanza
Photograph
The Survivor, by Elizabeth Catlett (after: Ex-slave with a long memory, Alabama 1938)
Notes
The source for this cover is the photograph Ex-slave with a long memory, Alabama 1937, made by Dorothea Lange for the FSA. As such, it is ‘owned’ by the Library of Congress and is copyright-free. In 1983, the image was translated by the renowned artist Elizabeth Catlett into a linocut, and is retitled The Survivor. It’s caption informs us that it appears ‘courtesy of Hancraft Studios. All Rights Reserved’. KB
To view an uncropped version of Dorothea Lange’s original, click here.
To view more books that appropriate Lange’s Ex-Slave for their cover image, scroll down to “Multiple Uses”.
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