Liminal Spaces
Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora
Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to ...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 6 avril 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-6515-1
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2020
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-987-4
Nombre de pages : xiv-215
Grace Aneiza Ali
Introduction: Liminal SpacesPart I. Mothering Lands
Keisha Scarville
1. Surrogate Skin: Portrait of Mother (Land)Erika DeFreitas
2. Until I Hear from YouNatalie Hopkinson et Serena Hopkinson
3. Electric DreamsPart II. The Ones Who Leave... The Ones Who Are Left
Grace Aneiza Ali
4. The Geography of SeparationDominique Hunter
5. TransplantationKhadija Benn
6. Those Who Remain: Portraits of Amerindian WomenIngrid Griffith
7. When They LeftPart III. Transitions
Grace Nichols
8. So I Pick Up Me New-World-SelfSuchitra Mattai
9. RevisionistChristie Neptune
10. Memories from YonderSandra Brewster
11. A Trace | Evidence of Time PastPart IV. Returns, Reunions, and Rituals
Michelle Joan Wilkinson
12. Concrete and FiligreeMaria del Pilar Kaladeen
13. A Daughter’s Journey from Indenture to WindrushMaya Mackrandilal
14. Keeping WakeGrace Aneiza Ali
Postface: A Brief History of Migration from GuyanaLiminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana.
Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a ‘disappearing nation’. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable no on of ‘homeland’, and grapple with ideas of place and accountability.
This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly fi eld of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area – as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It is essential reading to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies.
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Grace Aneiza Ali (dir.)
Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her curatorial research prac ce centers on socially engaged art prac ces, global contemporary art, and art of the Caribbean Diaspora, with a focus on her homeland Guyana.

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