Overview

Diaspora and Visual Culture marks the new importance of diaspora as a means of understanding the new modes of postnational identity. In examining the visual culture of the ""classic"" African and Jewish diasporas, contributors address different aspects of the multiple viewpoints inherent in diasporic cultures. Two key introductory essays by Stuart Hall and the painter R.B. Kitaj highlight the intersections of diaspora and cultural identity. The subsequent essays examine individual instances of diaspora as diverse as homosexuality in the Dreyfus Affair, the Caribbean-Jewish Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, Yoruba diaspora art and performance in Brazil and New York, identity in the art of African-American women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the formation of American, European and Israeli artistic identity and the possibility that queer culture is diasporic. Aline Brandauer, Paula Birnbaum, Henry J. Drewal, Margaret Thompson Drewal, Stuart Hall, Juanita Marie Holland, R.B. Kitaj, Norman Kleeblatt, Eunice Lipton, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Moyo Okediji, Simone Ost

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Author:   Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9780415166690

ISBN 10:   0415166691
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   28 October 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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;

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

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