Copyright
Deborah Willis; Ellyn Toscano; Kalia Brooks Nelson; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors.Published On
2019-03-08ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
668 pages (xxx+638)Dimensions
Weight
Media
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
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
Between Self and Memory
(pp. 13–22)- Ellyn Toscano
Fragments of Memory: Writing the Migrant’s Story
(pp. 23–38)- Anna Arabindan-Kesson
- Sandrine Colard
Migrations
(pp. 47–54)- Kathy Engel
Carrying Memory
(pp. 57–70)- Marianne Hirsch
Making Through Motion
(pp. 71–78)- Wangechi Mutu
- Karen Finley
Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age Goddess
(pp. 91–104)- Cheryl A. Wall
Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, Water
(pp. 107–112)- Sama Alshaibi
- Jessica Ingram
Visualizing Displacement Above The Fold
(pp. 121–134)- Lorie Novak
- Debora Spini
A Different Lens
(pp. 155–160)- Maaza Mengiste
- Maaza Mengiste
Swimming with E. C.
(pp. 167–192)- Kellie Jones
- Jennifer L. Morgan
Black Women's Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the 'Good' White Liberal Agenda
(pp. 207–216)- Bettina L. Love
- Editha Mesina
Women and Migrations: African Fashion’s Global Takeover
(pp. 227–232)- Allana Finley
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
Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and Iconicity
(pp. 247–264)- Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand Tour
(pp. 265–272)- Sirpa Salenius
- Arlene Dávila
Moving Mountains: Harriet Hosmer’s Nineteenth-Century Italian Migration to Become the First Professional Woman Sculptor
(pp. 283–298)- Patricia Cronin
Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings
(pp. 301–322)- Roshini Kempadoo
Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar World
(pp. 323–330)- Joan Morgan
- Sarah K. Khan
Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in Displacement
(pp. 345–362)- Gayatri Gopinath
The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race inMing Wong’s Life of Imitation
(pp. 363–376)- Kalia Brooks Nelson
The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart
(pp. 379–394)- Francille Rusan Wilson
- Tiffany M. Gill
Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo's Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890-1900
(pp. 415–438)- Paulette Young
'I Don't Pay Those Borders No Mind At All:' Audley E. Moore ('Queen' Mother Moore) - Grassroots Global Traveler and Activist
(pp. 439–452)- Paulette Young
Löis Mailou Jones in the World
(pp. 453–470)- Cheryl Finley
- Grace Aneiza Ali
- Alessandra Capodacqua
Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works
(pp. 505–532)- M. Neelika Jayawardane
- Alessandra Di Maio
Seizing Control of the Narrative
(pp. 555–560)- Misan Sagay
- Gunja SenGupta
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