Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This is the first book to examine the connections between diaspora - the movement, whether forced or voluntary, of a nation or group of people from one homeland to another - and its representations in visual culture. Two foundational articles by Stuart Hall and the painter R.B. Kitaj provide points of departure for an exploration of the meanings of diaspora for cultural identity and artistic practice.
A distinguished group of contributors, who include Alan Sinfield, Irit Rogoff, and Eunice Lipton, address the rich complexity of diasporic cultures and art, but with a focus on the visual culture of the Jewish and African diasporas. Individual articles address the Jewish diaspora and visual culture from the 19th century to the present, and work by African American and Afro-Brazilian artists.
Table of Contents
Cultural identity and diaspora /Stuart Hall --First diasporist manifesto /R.B. Kitaj --Mary Edmonia Lewis's Minnehaha : gender, race and the "Indian maid" /Juanita Marie Holland --Pissarro's passage : the sensation of Caribbean Jewishness in diaspora /Nicholas Mirzoeff --Body of Alfred Dreyfus : a site for France's displaced anxieties of masculinity, homosexuality and power /Norman L. Kleeblatt --Diaspora and hybridity : queer identities and the ethnicity model /Alan Sinfield --Nomadic cultural production in African diaspora /Margaret Thompson Drewal --Black skin, white kins : metamodern masks, multiple mimesis /Moyo Okediji --Daughters of sunshine : diasporic impulses and gendered identities /Irit Rogoff --Hill behind the house : an Ashkenazi Jew and art history /Eunice Lipton --Imagining the Shtetl : diaspora culture, photography and eastern European Jews /Carol Zemel --Alice Halicka's self-effacement : constructing an artistic identity in interwar France /Paula J. Birnbaum --Hâelio Oiticica's Parangolâes : nomadic experience in endless motion /Simone Osthoff --Memory and agency : Bantu and Yoruba arts in Brazilian culture /Henry J. Drewal --Practicing modernism : "--for the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house--" /Aline Brandauer.