Between Disgust And Regeneration:

Barber, Tiffany E.; Naimou, Angela; Mutu, Wangechi

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“…But, you know, when things go, when the earth de cides to clean up, it's not go ing to go, oh you're the good ones, you're al right, you stay and they go." 22 The fe male body par al lels the space of the earth: both are mul ti ply in jured, both need healing and re new al-a pro cess stalled by the im pos si ble bur den of car ry ing all .…”

Section: The End Of Carrying Allmentioning

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Stateless Memory

Hirsch¹

2019

Critical Times

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Responding to current conditions of statelessness by way of Hannah Arendt's mid- twentieth century reflections, this article proposes the aesthetic encounter as a practice of alternative, counter-national community and belonging. Artistic works exploring the vulnerabilities and the vicissitudes of statelessness by Mirta Kupferminc and Wangechi Mutu inspire a definition of stateless memory as a suspension or hiatus in time and space. Stateless memory, the article suggests, can mobilize the memory of painful pasts in a different time frame than the progression toward preordained futures that often seem inevitable in the space-time of the nation-state and the catastrophes it causes and suffers.

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Stateless Memory

Hirsch¹

2019

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Women and Migration

2019

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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.

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1. Between Self and Memory

Toscano¹

2019

Women and Migration

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Ellyn Toscano writes about silences and secrets within her family. She explores the story of her grandmother’s migration from South Carolina to New York in the early twentieth century, and her essay ‘Between Self and Memory’ looks at the consequences of deracination, concealment, and the self-fashioning of transitive identities. She questions the reasoning behind why people move away from the familiar into the unknown and in some cases choose to conceal their identity to fit in with society. Reading about Belle da Costa Greene, a librarian at Princeton University in 1905 who worked for J. P. Morgan, Toscano starts to unravel the truth about her own grandmother and ancestry, and what migration means to her.and the idea of memory as a form of narrative. She recalls the violent events of Sri Lanka’s ‘Black July’ in 1983 and how its legacies and impact have directly shaped her scholarship. She explores the power of photography as both a tool to reconstruct her early memories and as a way to reconnect her with her family’s past. She delves into the differences of her experience living in Australia compared to Sri Lanka and looks at this in the context of image-making, memory, beginnings, and endings.

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Between Disgust And Regeneration:

Cited by 53 publications

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Stateless Memory

Stateless Memory

Women and Migration

1. Between Self and Memory

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