Copyright
Deborah Willis; Ellyn Toscano; Kalia Brooks Nelson; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.Published On
2019-03-08ISBN
Paperback978-1-78374-565-4
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PDF978-1-78374-567-8
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Language
- English
Print Length
668 pages (xxx+638)Dimensions
Paperback156 x 46 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.83" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 49 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.94" x 9.21")
Weight
Paperback2762g (97.43oz)
Hardback3181g (112.21oz)
Media
Illustrations156
Tables5
OCLC Number
1090549391LCCN
2019452866BIC
- AG
- AJ
- JFFN
- JFS
BISAC
- SOC008000
- SOC007000
- SOC028000
LCC
- JV6347
Keywords
- collection of essays
- women
- migration
- women’s experiences of migration
- women’s perspectives
- writing
- photography
- art
- film
- Biography
- Women and Gender Studies
- Economics, Politics and Sociology
- Visual Arts
- Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
Women and Migration
Responses in Art and History
- Deborah Willis (editor)
- Ellyn Toscano (editor)
- Kalia Brooks Nelson (editor)
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 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.
Endorsements
'Women and Migration' is not only rich in detailing women’s lives, daily life, and human agency in addition to memory, emotion, and culture but also multidisciplinary and a welcome focus on women’s diverse experiences with migration from the perspective of class, ethnicity, ‘race’, religion, and sexual identity. I particularly like the narratives showcasing women and migrations from political and geographical perspectives with regard to the fluidity and representations of borders and border crossings. It is especially relevant given the varied responses to migration in Europe and North America today. Their ‘voices’ rise from the pages of the manuscript!
Dr Mary Anne Poutanen
McGill University
Reviews
'Women and Migration' fonde una molteplicità di sguardi sulla complessità di un fenomeno e, attraverso le sue pagine, immerge il lettore nell’universo delle migrazioni. ['Women and Migration' fuses multiple glances on the complexity of the phenomenon and, through its pages, immerses the reader in the universe of migration.]
Laura Amigo
Studi Emigrazione (0039-2936), vol. 218, 2020.
Additional Resources
Contents
1. Between Self and Memory
(pp. 13–22)- Ellyn Toscano
- Anna Arabindan-Kesson
- Sandrine Colard
4. Migrations
(pp. 47–54)- Kathy Engel
5. Carrying Memory
(pp. 57–70)- Marianne Hirsch
6. Making Through Motion
(pp. 71–78)- Wangechi Mutu
- Karen Finley
- Cheryl A. Wall
9. Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, Water
(pp. 107–112)- Sama Alshaibi
- Jessica Ingram
11. Visualizing Displacement Above The Fold
(pp. 121–134)- Lorie Novak
- Debora Spini
13. A Different Lens
(pp. 155–160)- Maaza Mengiste
- Maaza Mengiste
15. Swimming with E. C.
(pp. 167–192)- Kellie Jones
- Jennifer L. Morgan
17. Black Women's Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the 'Good' White Liberal Agenda
(pp. 207–216)- Bettina L. Love
- Editha Mesina
- Allana Finley
20. What Would It Mean to Sing A Black Girl’s Song?: A Brief Statement on the Reality of Anti-Black Girl Terror
(pp. 233–240)- Treva B. Lindsey
- Pamela Newkirk
22. Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and Iconicity
(pp. 247–264)- Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
23. Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand Tour
(pp. 265–272)- Sirpa Salenius
- Arlene Dávila
- Patricia Cronin
26. Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings
(pp. 301–322)- Roshini Kempadoo
27. Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar World
(pp. 323–330)- Joan Morgan
- Sarah K. Khan
29. Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in Displacement
(pp. 345–362)- Gayatri Gopinath
30. The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race inMing Wong’s Life of Imitation
(pp. 363–376)- Kalia Brooks Nelson
31. The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart
(pp. 379–394)- Francille Rusan Wilson
- Tiffany M. Gill
33. Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo's Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890-1900
(pp. 415–438)- Paulette Young
- Paulette Young
35. Löis Mailou Jones in the World
(pp. 453–470)- Cheryl Finley
- Grace Aneiza Ali
- Alessandra Capodacqua
38. Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works
(pp. 505–532)- M. Neelika Jayawardane
- Alessandra Di Maio
40. Seizing Control of the Narrative
(pp. 555–560)- Misan Sagay
- Gunja SenGupta
42. The Sacred Migration of Sister Gertrude Morgan
(pp. 581–604)- Imani Uzuri
Introduction: Women and Migration[s]
(pp. 1–10)- Deborah Willis
- Ellyn Toscano
- Kalia Brooks Nelson
Contributors
Deborah Willis
(editor)University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University
Ellyn Toscano
(editor)Executive Director at New York University Florence
Kalia Brooks Nelson
(editor)Adjunct Professor in the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University