Diaspora and visual culture : representing Africans and Jews / edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2000
Descript
xiii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Multiple viewpoint: diasporic visual cultures -- Points of departure: Cultural identity and diaspora ; First diasporist manifesto -- Diasporic identity in the nineteenth century: Mary Edmonia Lewis's Minnehaha: gender, race and the "Indian maid" ; Pissarro's passage: the sensation of Caribbean jewishness in diaspora ; Body of Alfred Dreyfus -- Engendering diaspora: Diaspora and hybridity ; Nomadic cultural production in African diaspora ; Black skin, white kins ; Daughters of sunshine ; Hill behind the house -- Poland-Brazil: Imaging the shtetl ; Alice Halicka's self-effacement ; Helio Oiticica's parangoles ; Memory and agency ; Practicing modernism