1. Does "while highlighting the fetishistic desirable of the latter" mean "while obviously insisting on the fetishistic and desirable aspects of the prostitute’s body"?
2. Does "hence the importance for black women artists to examine this whiting out of the female black body and to reclaim visibility" mean "therefore, it has been important for black female artists to question this invisibility of the female black body and to reclaim female black body's right to be represented visibly in artworks"?
3. Does "The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems explore this negation of the black female’s subjectivity in the process of othering in the mirror relation" mean:
a) The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, through the process of othering in the mirror relation, explore this negation of the black female’s subjectivity
or
b) There is a negation of the black female’s subjectivity in the process of othering in the mirror relation. The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems explore this negation?
Context:
In Édouard Manet’s Olympia, 1863, the image of the black woman historically served to underscore the whiteness of the prostitute’s body, rendering the former invisible while highlighting the fetishistic desirable of the latter, hence the importance for black women artists to examine this whiting out of the female black body and to reclaim visibility. But of course this was also riddled with problems as the female black body’s visibility was equated with availability. The photographs of Carrie Mae Weems explore this negation of the black female’s subjectivity in the process of othering in the mirror relation.
catttt 1. Does "while highlighting the fetishistic desirable of the latter" mean "while obviously insisting on the fetishistic and desirable aspects of the prostitute’s body"? That may well be the result, but the words don't mean that.
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catttt1. Does "while highlighting the fetishistic desirable of the latter" mean "while obviously insisting on the fetishistic and desirable aspects of the prostitute’s body"?
That may well be the result, but the words don't mean that. It is a simple matter of visual contrast. By the way, that looks like an editing error, and "desirable" should be "desirabil