10 Jan 2013

Volume 31 of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal

n.paradoxa is the only international feminist art journal which specialises in discussions about contemporary women artists (visual arts only, post-1970) and feminist theory.

This special issue on 'Africa and its Diasporas' looks at the work of contemporary women artists working in Africa or of African descent or engaged with issues of African identity to highlight the complex relationships between artists working on social and political issues in different places and countries related to this large and culturally diverse continent and now, perhaps, living in different parts of the world today or in Africa itself.

Bisi Silva is a member of n.paradoxa's editorial board, a curator and founder and Director of CCA, Lagos.

Volume 31 (Jan 2013) Africa and Its Diasporas
Guest Edited by Bisi Silva
ISSN: 1461-0434 96 pages, 16 in colour.

Contents:
Giulia Lamoni (Portugal) 'African masks, family photographs and open suitcases: Rosana Paulino (Brazil), Mónica de Miranda (Portugal/UK) and Maimuna Adam (Mozambique)'

Julie Crenn (France) 'Michèle Magéma - Without Echo, there is no Meeting (France/Democratic Republic of Congo)'

Nontobeko Ntombela (South Africa) 'Silent Toyi-Toyis in the work of Donna Kukama and Reshma Chhiba (South Africa)'

Monique Kerman (USA) 'Cut to the Chase: The Work of Mary Evans (Nigeria/UK)'

Rachida Triki (Tunisia) 'Contemporary women artists in Tunisia'

Cheryl Thompson (USA) 'Contesting the Aunt Jemima Trademark through Feminist Art: Why is She Still Smiling?'

Solange Farkas (Brazil) 'From 'ferramentaria' to trance: Symbolism, concept and religiosity in the work of Eneida Sanches (Brazil)'

Peju Layiwola (Nigeria) 'From Footnote to Main Text: Re/Framing Women Artists from Nigeria'

Zehra Jumabhoy (UK/India) 'Betwixt and In-Between: Reading Zarina Bhimji (UK/Uganda)'

Artists' Statements on recent works from Taiye Idahor (Nigeria), Ato Malinda (Kenya), Adwoa Admoah (Ghana), Maimuna Adam (Mozambique) and Mary Sibande (South Africa)

Artist's Pages by Ayana V. Jackson (USA); Pinar Yolacan (USA/Turkey); Angèle Etounde Essamba (Netherlands)

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