Patchwork Politics: Black Women Stitching Their Own Identities in Eudora Welty’s Writing

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Notes

¹ Monoceros is a constellation that was once considered to resemble the shape of a unicorn..

² The Gee’s Bend quilters are a group of Black women from a small central Alabama community who have “repurposed scraps of fabric and old clothes into elaborate abstract designs” since the 19^th century for economic and artistic freedom (Gipson 16).

³ Bisa Butler is a contemporary fiber artist who specializes in art quilted portraits of people of African descent. www.bisabutler.com.