Migrating the Black Body : The African Diaspora and Visual Culture. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Migrating the Black Body : The African Diaspora and Visual Culture

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media—from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels—has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the travel of black bodies reflected in reciprocal black images? How is blackness forged and remade through diasporic visual encounters and reimagined through revisitations with the past? And how do visual technologies structure the way we see African subjects and subjectivity? This volume brings together an international group of scholars and artists who explore these questions in visual culture for the historical and contemporary African diaspora. Examining subjects as wide-ranging as the appearance of blackamoors in Russian and Swedish imperialist paintings, the appropriation of African and African American liberation images for Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and the role of YouTube videos in establishing connections between Ghana and its international diaspora, these essays investigate routes of migration, both voluntary and forced, stretching across space, place, and time.

Leigh Raiford is associate professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also serves as affiliate faculty in the Program in American Studies, and the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. Raiford is author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle (UNC Press, 2011) and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (U of Georgia Press, 2006).

Heike Raphael-Hernandez is professor of English at the University of Maryland University College, Europe and guest professor of American cultural studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany.Raphael-Hernandez is author of Contemporary African American Women Writers and Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope (Edwin Mellen, 2008), editor of Blackening Europe: The African American Presence (Routledge, 2004) and co-editor of AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics (NYU Press, 2006).