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.
Author(s): Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, Kalia Brooks Nelson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Year: 2019
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
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