Women and Migration
Responses in Art and History
The essays in this book chart how women's profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women's perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.
The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic a...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 12 septembre 2019
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-3807-0
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2019
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-565-4
Nombre de pages : xxx+640
Part one. Imagining family and migration
Ellyn Toscano
1. Between Self and MemoryAnna Arabindan-Kesson
2. Fragments of Memory: Writing the Migrant’s StoryKathy Engel
4. MigrationsPart two. Mobility and migration
Marianne Hirsch
5. Carrying MemoryWangechi Mutu
6. Making Through MotionCheryl A. Wall
8. Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age GoddessPart three. Understanding pathways
Sama Alshaibi
9. Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, WaterLorie Novak
11. Visualizing Displacement Above The FoldMaaza Mengiste
13. A Different LensKellie Jones
15. Swimming with E. C.Part four. Reclaiming our time
Jennifer L. Morgan
16. Kinship, the Middle Passage, and the Origins of Racial SlaveryBettina L. Love
17. Black Women’s Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the ‘Good’ White Liberal AgendaTreva B. Lindsey
20. What Would It Mean to Sing A Black Girl’s Song?: A Brief Statement on the Reality of Anti-Black Girl TerrorPart five. Situated at the edge
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
22. Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and IconicitySirpa Salenius
23. Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand TourArlene Dávila
24. Making Latinx Art: Juana Valdes at the Crossroads of Latinx and Latin American ArtPatricia Cronin
25. Moving Mountains: Harriet Hosmer’s Nineteenth-Century Italian Migration to Become the First Professional Woman SculptorPart six. Transit, transiting, and transition
Roshini Kempadoo
26. Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and ImaginingsJoan Morgan
27. Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar WorldGayatri Gopinath
29. Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in DisplacementKalia Brooks Nelson
30. The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race in Ming Wong’s Life of ImitationPart seven. The world is ours, too
Francille Rusan Wilson
31. The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the HeartPaulette Young
33. Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo’s Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890–1900Cheryl Finley
35. Löis Mailou Jones in the WorldPart eight. Emotional cartography: tracing the personal
Alessandra Capodacqua
37. The Acton Photograph Archive: Between Representation and Re-InterpretationM. Neelika Jayawardane
38. Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video WorksMisan Sagay
40. Seizing Control of the NarrativeThe essays in this book chart how women's profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women's perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.
The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women's joy and suffering, disaster and delight place, memory and identity.
This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found here: www.openbookpublishers.com
Deborah Willis is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on photography and imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, visual culture, the photographic history of Slavery and Emancipation, contemporary women photographers and beauty. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book (with Barbara Krauthamer) Envisioning Emancipation. Other notable projects includeThe Black Female Body A Photographic History (2002); Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers–1840 to the Present (2002); Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (2009); Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs (2009), a NAACP Image Award Literature Winner; and Black Venus 2010: They Called Her ‘Hottentot’ (2010).
Ellyn Toscano is Senior Director of Programing, Partnerships and Community Engagement, NYU in Brooklyn and former Executive Director of New York University Florence. She is the founder of La Pietra Dialogues and the founding producer of The Season, a summer arts festival in Florence, Italy. Toscano co-organized Black Portraitures conference at NYU Florence and produced the exhibition ‘ReSignifications', held at three venues in Florence, Italy. She is a member of the Boards of the Harbor Conservancy, New York, Museo Marino Marini in Florence, Italy; of the John Brademas Center, New York; the Italian Advisory Council of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy; and the Comitato Promotore of the Festival degli Scrittori and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, Santa Maddalena Foundation, Donnini, Italy. Before arriving at New York University Florence, Toscano served as Chief of Staff and Counsel to Congressman Jose Serrano of New York, was his chief policy advisor and directed his work on the Appropriations Committee. Toscano also served as counsel to the New York State Assembly Committee on Education for nine years and served on the boards of several prominent arts and cultural institutions in New York City, including The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (representative of the Borough President), A lawyer by training, Toscano earned an LLM in International Law from New York University School of Law.
Kalia Brooks Nelson is a New-York-based independent curator and educator. Brooks Nelson is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Brooks Nelson holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts in 2006, and was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program 2007/2008. She has served as a consulting curator with the City of New York through the Department of Cultural Affairs and Gracie Mansion Conservancy. Brooks Nelson is also an ex-officio trustee on the Board of the Museum of the City of New York.
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