Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 229485-213843-1282
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- ISBN
- 9781781382677
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora, edited by Celeste-Marie Bernier and Hannah Durkin. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. 304 pages.
This edited collection of essays, which originated as a symposium at the University of Oxford, stems from Durkin’s interdisciplinary expertise in Black Atlantic visual culture and Slavery Studies (see her monographs Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham [2019], and Inside the Invisible [2019]). Drawing together artworks and original writings by five major African American and Black British contemporary artists (including future Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid) and placing them alongside new research by academics working across Art History, Visual Culture, Slavery Studies, African American Studies, Black British Studies and African Diaspora Studies, the volume seeks to map a Black Atlantic art tradition and show how Black artists have responded to slavery and its legacies from the nineteenth century to the present day. As this collection demonstrates, artists working within an African diasporic tradition develop an alternative visual lexicon to challenge the racist exclusions of mainstream art narratives.
Durkin’s published contribution is 50% of the ‘Introduction: African Diasporic Artists Visualise Transatlantic Slavery’, co-authored with Celeste-Marie Bernier (about half of the 5,500 word count). She also contributed one sole-authored chapter, ‘“The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth”: Richmond Barthé’s Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ (7,000 words). As the volume’s co-editor, Durkin played a leading role in conceptualising the collection as an interdisciplinary and international project. She took joint responsibility for selecting and securing the contributors and was their chief point of contact. She also was chiefly responsible for editing, proofreading, and securing image rights for the book.
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- Non-English
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