Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews / Edition 1

by Nicholas Mirzoeff

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415166690
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/1999
Series:	Culture Work Series
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Mirzoeff, Nicholas

Table of Contents

Introduction, Nicholas Mirzoeff; Part I Points of Departure; Chapter 1 Cultural Identity and Diaspora, Stuart Hall; Chapter 2 First Diasporist Manifesto, R.B. Kitaj; Part II Diasporic Identity in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 3 Mary Edmonia Lewis’s Minnehaha, Juanita Marie Holland; Chapter 4 Pissarro’s Passage, Nicholas Mirzoeff; Chapter 5 The Body of Alfred Dreyfus, Norman L. Kleeblatt; Part III Engendering Diaspora; Chapter 6 Diaspora And Hybridity, Alan Sinfield; Chapter 7 Nomadic Cultural Production in African Diaspora, Margaret Thompson Drewal; Chapter 8 Black Skin, White Kins, Moyo Okediji; Chapter 9 Daughters of Sunshine, Irit Rogoff; Chapter 10 The Hill Behind the House, Eunice Lipton; Part IV Poland-Brazil; Chapter 11 Imaging The Shtetl, Carol Zemel; Chapter 12 Alice Halicka’s Self-Effacement, Paula J. Birnbaum; Chapter 13 Hélio Oiticica’ Parangolés, Simone Osthoff; Chapter 14 Memory and Agency, Henry John Drewal; Chapter 15 Practicing Modernism, Aline Brandauer;

Editorial Reviews

'Rich and provocative.' - Eva Frojmovic, The Art Book

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