Description
Book SynopsisAn anthology of essays devoted to the examination of filmmaker Julie Dash's ground-breaking film, Daughters of the Dust, this book celebrates the importance and influence of this film and positions it within the discourses of Black Feminism, Womanism, the LA Rebellion, New Black Cinema, Great Migration, The Black Arts tradition, Oral History, African American/Black/African diasporan Studies, and Black film/cinema studies. Employing a transdisciplinary approach to examining the film, the anthology includes chapters which examine unique aspects/themes of the film. At the core of each chapter, however, is a recognition of the influence of Black feminist/Womanist theory and politics and African American historyfrom enslavement to freedom/Reconstruction, Black political identity and liberation movement(s)and African/ African diasporan cosmology on Dash's work and how all work in concert in her masterful narrative of Black family, 20th Black women's identities, and the tension betw
Table of Contents
List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Patricia Williams Lessane: Introduction – Capturing the Canon: Julie Dash and the Black Arts and Black Feminist Traditions – Patricia Williams Lessane: Memory, Meaning, and Gullah Sensibilities: The Black Art Aesthetics of Julie Dash and Jonathan Green – Ayana I. Karanja: Inspiration in the Dark Space: Julie Dash’s Re-Visioning of Time and Place in Daughters of the Dust – Heike Raphael-Hernandez: Overcoming the Trauma of the Gaze in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust – Sensory Ignition and Cultural Memory: Visual Art and Gastronomy in Daughters of the Dust – Katie M. White: Coming Home to Good Gumbo: Gullah Foodways and the Sensory in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust. – Corrie Claiborne: Decorating the Decorations: Daughters of the Dust and the Aesthetics of the Quilt – The Sacred Emerge: The Witness, the Healed, and Daughters of the Dust – Karen M. Gagne: "I Arrived Late to this Book": Teaching Sociology with Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, the Novel – Sharon D.Johnson: Conscious Daughters: Psychological Migration, Individuation, and the Declaration of Black Female Identity in Daughters of the Dust – Tiffany Lethabo King: Reading Nana Peazant’s Palms: Punctuating Readings of Blue – The Power of Place in Shaping Identity and Artistic Cultivation – Marcella "Marcy" De Veaux: In Search of Solid Ground: Oral Histories of the Great Migration, from the Carolinas to New England – Silvia Pilar Castro-Borrego: Motherlands as Gendered Spaces: Cultural Identity, Mythic Memory, and Wholeness in Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust – Julie Dash: Making Daughters of the Dust (Revised) – Farah Jasmine Griffin: Epilogue – Contributors – Index.
