Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History

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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. 9781783745678 Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Women and Migration[s] Part OneImagining Family and Migration 1. Between Self and Memory 2. Fragments of Memory: Writing the Migrant’s Story Introduction Black July Shards of Memory Beginnings and Endings A Migrant’s Photograph Bibliography 3. A Congolese Woman’s Life in Europe: A Postcolonial Diptych of Migration I. II. 4. Migrations Migrations (I) (forced) migrations… (II)many birds and some fishes… Part TwoMobility and Migration 5. Carrying Memory Bibliography 6. Making Through Motion 7. Strange Set of Circumstances: White Artistic Migration and Crazy Quilt Part Two Crazy Quilt 8. Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age Goddess Bibliography Part ThreeUnderstanding Pathways 9. Silsila: Linking Bodies, Deserts, Water 10. My Baby Saved My Life: Migration and Motherhood in an American High School 11. Visualizing Displacement Above The Fold Counting Speaks Volumes Men With Guns, Dead Bodies, Grieving, Protest Refugees and Migrants 12. Unveiling Violence: Gender and Migration in the Discourse of Right-Wing Populism The Context: Europe’s Invasion Democracy’s Distorting Mirror Racializing Otherness Sexual Wars Conclusion Bibliography 13. A Different Lens 14. Reinventing the Spaces Within: The Early Images of Artist Lalla Essaydi 15. Swimming with E. C. Tijuana, 1971 Mexico City, 1947 Washington, D.C., 1935 Bibliography Part FourReclaiming Our Time 16. Kinship, the Middle Passage, and the Origins of Racial Slavery Bibliography 17. Black Women’s Work: Resisting and Undoing Character Education and the ‘Good’ White Liberal Agenda Reclaiming Our Time Don’t Believe the Hype What We Had Keep Swimming Black Women’s Work Undoing Bibliography 18. Filipina Stories: Gabriela NY and Justice for Mary Jane Veloso Filipina Stories: Gabriela, NY and NBC’s Mail-Order Family Filipina Stories: Gabriela NY 19. Women & Migrations: African Fashion’s Global Takeover 20. What Would It Mean to Sing A Black Girl’s Song?: A Brief Statement on the Reality of Anti-Black Girl Terror Bibliography Part Five Situated at the Edge 21. Fredi’s Migration: Washington’s Forgotten War on Hollywood 22. Julia de Burgos: Cultural Crossing and Iconicity Bibliography 23. Sarah Parker Remond’s Black American Grand Tour Bibliography 24. Making Latinx Art: Juana Valdes at the Crossroads of Latinx and Latin American Art Bibliography 25. Moving Mountains: Harriet Hosmer’s Nineteenth-Century Italian Migration to Become the First Professional Woman Sculptor Bibliography Part SixTransit, Transiting, and Transition 26. Urban Candy: Screens, Selfies and Imaginings First Provocation Her Body is Political: The Smartphone as a Creative Knowledge-Making Device Second Provocation Her State of Emergency: Visual Registers of Violence Third Provocation Her Narratives: Migration, Memory, and History Conclusion Bibliography 27. Controlled Images and Cultural Reassembly: Material Black Girls Living in an Avatar World Bibliography 28. Supershero Amrita Simla, Partitioned Once, Migrated Twice Introduction Amrita Simla Shero — Origin and Evolution Developing Amrita Simla: Animated, Comic, Graphic Other Works Envoi Bibliography 29. Diaspora, Indigeneity, Queer Critique: Tracey Moffatt’s Aesthetics of Dwelling in Displacement Bibliography 30. The Performance of Doubles: The Transposition of Gender and Race in Ming Wong’s Life of Imitation Introduction Imitation of Life Four Transpositions The Tertiary Experience Bibliography Part SevenThe World is Ours, Too 31. The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart Bibliography 32. ‘The World is Ours, Too’: Millennial Women and the New Black Travel Movement Black Travel Movements: A Historical Perspective The Tribe That Evie Built Bibliography 33. Performing a Life: Mattie Allen McAdoo’s Odyssey from Ohio to South Africa, Australia and Beyond, 1890–1900 Introduction Who Was Martha Allan McAdoo? Background Life in Ohio and Beyond Dress and Presentation through Photographs On to South Africa and Beyond Race and Performance in South Africa A Return to the US Bibliography 34. ‘I Don’t Pay Those Borders No Mind At All’: Audley E. Moore (‘Queen Mother’ Moore) — Grassroots Global Traveler and Activist Bibliography 35. Löis Mailou Jones in the World The Early Years Paris The Children’s Page Haiti Pedagogy The Black Arts Movement Africa and the World Conclusion Bibliography Part EightEmotional Cartography: Tracing the Personal 36. The Ones Who Leave… the Ones Who Are Left: Guyanese Migration Story Keisha Scarville Erika DeFreitas Christie Neptune Khadija Benn Bibliography 37. The Acton Photograph Archive: Between Representation and Re-Interpretation Bibliography 38. Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works Bibliography 39. Transnational Minor Literature: Cristina Ali Farah’s Somali Italian Stories Minor Transnationalism in Italy’s Contemporary Letters Postcolonial Italy: The Somali Community Sites of Intersection: Women Writings Language and Power in Cristina Ali Farah Conclusion: Across Boundaries Bibliography 40. Seizing Control of the Narrative 41. Migration as a Woman’s Right: Stories from Comparative and Transnational Slavery Histories in the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds Bibliography 42. The Sacred Migration of Sister Gertrude Morgan ‘Go-o-o-o-o, Preacher, Tell it to the World’ ‘I Got a New World in my View’ Come in my Room, Come on in the Prayer Room Conclusion Bibliography List of Illustrations Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 5 Chapter 7 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 14 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 42 Index additional-page-WomenMigration