Research Catalog

Title

Teaching Daughters of the dust as a womanist film and the black arts aesthetic of filmmaker Julie Dash / edited by Patricia Williams Lessane.

Publication

New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Williams Dockery, Patricia

Description

xi, 180 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"An 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 history-from 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 between modernity and tradition experienced by Gullah-Geechee people at the turn of the 20th century"--

Subject

• Dash, Julie > Criticism and interpretation
• Dash, Julie
• Daughters of the dust (Motion picture)
• African American women in motion pictures

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Memory, meaning and Gullah sensibilities : the black art aesthetics of Julie Dash and Jonathan Green / Patricia Williams Lessane -- Inspiration in the dark space : Julie Dash's re-visioning of time and place in Daughters of the dust / Ayana I. Karanja -- Overcoming the trauma of the gaze in Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust / Heike Raphael-Hernandez -- Coming home to good gumbo : Gullah foodways and the sensory in Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust / Katie M. White -- Decorating the decorations : Daughters of the dust and the aesthetics of the quilt / Corrie Claiborne -- "I arrived late to this book" : teaching sociology with Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust, the Novel / Karen M. Gagne -- Conscious daughters : psychological migration, individuation, and the declaration of black female identity in Daughters of the dust / Sharon D. Johnson -- Reading Nana Peazant's Palms : punctuating readings of blue / Tiffany Lethabo King -- In search of solid ground : oral histories of the great migration, from the Carolinas to New England / Marcella DeVeaux -- Motherlands as gendered spaces : cultural identity, mythic memory and wholeness in Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust / Silvia Castro-Borrego -- Making Daughters of the dust (Revised) / Julie Dash -- Epilogue / Farah Jasmine Griffin.

Call Number

Sc E 21-310

ISBN

• 9781433166488
• 1433166488

LCCN

2019036539

OCLC

1120907958

Title

Teaching Daughters of the dust as a womanist film and the black arts aesthetic of filmmaker Julie Dash / edited by Patricia Williams Lessane.

Publisher

New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. BASED ON PAPERS FROM A 2011 CONFERENCE.

Added Author

Williams Dockery, Patricia, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-310