Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History, Edited by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson | March 2019
Co-edited by Deborah Willis, chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging, as well as professor Ellyn Toscano (NYU Florence) and DPI faculty Kalia Brooks Nelson, Women and Migration was released on International Women's Day. 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.
A number of contributors include NYU faculty: Isolde Brielmaier, Editha Mesina, Kathy Engel, Lorie Novak, Karen Finley, Ellyn Toscano, Sandrine Colard, Jennifer Morgan, Joan Morgan, Gayatri Gopinath, Jessica Ingram (DPI alum), Pamela Newkirk, Arlene Davila, and Grace Aneiza Ali.
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