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Talking Visions

Name: Talking Visions
Author: Ella Shohat; foreword by Marcia Tucker
ISBN: 9780262692052

by Ella Shohat; foreword by Marcia Tucker

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Overview

This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents the perspectives of activists, scholars, artists, and curators from a broad range of constituencies. Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries, the book moves beyond any unified feminist historical narrative to present a "relational" feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices. The texts/images partake of many genres: reflective essay, testimonial dialogue, performance piece, digital collage, prose poem, and photomontage. Forging connections between usually compartmentalized areas of knowledge and of activism, the volume helps us to envision alternative epistemologies and imaginative alliances.

Contributors include M. Jacqui Alexander, Meena Alexander, Marina Alvarez, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Shu Lea Cheang, Mallika Dutt, Coco Fusco, Renée Green, Inderpal Grewal, Guerrilla Girls, Jamelie Hassan, Mervat F. Hatem, Mona Hatoum, Maria Hinojosa, bell hooks, Lisa Jones, Caren Kaplan, Wahneema Lubiano, Yong Soon Min, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Shirin Neshat, Lorraine O'Grady, Catherine Opie, Hanh Thi Pham, Adrian Piper, Tricia Rose, Juan Sanchez, Lorna Simpson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Carmelita Tropicana, Kara Walker, and Lynne Yamamoto.

About the Author, Ella Shohat; foreword by Marcia Tucker

Ella Shohat is Professor of Women's Studies and Cultural Studies at the City University of New York and author of several books, including (with Robert Stam) the award-winning Unthinking Eurocentrism.