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Diaspora and visual culture : representing Africans and Jews /

Diaspora and visual culture : representing Africans and Jews / - London ; New York : Routledge, 2000. - xiii, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural identity and diaspora / First diasporist manifesto / 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 : a site for France's displaced anxieties of masculinity, homosexuality and power / Diaspora and hybridity : queer identities and the ethnicity model / Nomadic cultural production in African diaspora / Black skin, white kins : metamodern masks, multiple mimesis / Daughters of sunshine : diasporic impulses and gendered identities / Hill behind the house : an Ashkenazi Jew and art history / Imagining the Shtetl : diaspora culture, photography and eastern European Jews / Alice Halicka's self-effacement : constructing an artistic identity in interwar France / Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés : nomadic experience in endless motion / Memory and agency : Bantu and Yoruba arts in Brazilian culture / Practicing modernism : "--for the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house--" / Stuart Hall -- R.B. Kitaj -- Juanita Marie Holland -- Nicholas Mirzoeff -- Norman L. Kleeblatt -- Alan Sinfield -- Margaret Thompson Drewal -- Moyo Okediji -- Irit Rogoff -- Eunice Lipton -- Carol Zemel -- Paula J. Birnbaum -- Simone Osthoff -- Henry J. Drewal -- Aline Brandauer.

With contributions from such distinguished figures as Stuart Hall, Irit Rogoff, Alan Sinfield and R.B. Kitaj, this book examines the connections between diaspora and its representations in visual culture.

0415166691 9780415166690: £45.00 0415166705 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Art, Jewish.
Art, African.
Art, Modern--19th century.
Art, Modern--20th century.
Jewish diaspora.
African diaspora.
Identity (Psychology) in art.

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