Transnational Identities Women Art and Migration in Contemporary Israel
Paperback
Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814342503
Pages: 172 Size: 6x9
Illustrations: 31 color photographs; four black-and white photographs
eBOOK
Published: November 2016
ISBN: 9780814342510
Published:
ISBN: 0814342507
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This book is a pioneering contribution to the disquisitional discussion of migratory narratives in Israel.When I looked at the title I thought to myself that so much has been written about migration; however, one time I dived into the book I realized that it is the offset scholarly volume that addresses the gender facets of contemporary migrant women in Israel through art. By analyzing artworks of migrant women, the volume offers a unique and compelling perspective from which to talk over the timely and urgent subject. It therefore makes a meaning contribution to research into contemporary issues of transnationalism in Israel, and at the aforementioned time serves as a theoretical platform for agreement like phenomena in other parts of the globe.
– Galia Sabar, professor of African and migration studies, Tel Aviv University
Dekel's pioneering study on contemporary fine art and migration in Israel is based on in-depth interviews with the artists who are women who emigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia, as well as on women 'foreign workers' from the Philippines. It makes a unique contribution to scholarship on art and migration, Israel studies, and feminist art history.
– Ruth East. Iskin, author of The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s and Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Civilization in Impressionist Painting
With international migration being one of the most disquisitional problems facing the global community in the twenty-showtime century, Tal Dekel's new book engages in a timely give-and-take of gender, identity, and diaspora in contemporary Israeli arts and culture. Based on primary research and grounded in postal service-colonial and transnational theories, Dekel offers compelling case studies that shed lite on identity construction in the piece of work of Ethiopian-, Soviet-, and Philippine-born female person artists and workers who arrived in State of israel in the 1990s. For all of the women Dekel interviewed, the concepts of transnationalism and intersectionality are at the heart of their exercise, equally they navigate what information technology means to be Israeli women artists in light of their diverse experiences of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and organized religion.
– Paula J. Birnbaum, author of Women Artists in Interwar France, Department of Fine art and Architecture, University of San Francisco
In this rich and profound volume, art historian Tal Dekel presents the individual voices and the various artistic expressions of women immigrants in a transnational era. Departing from a critical and reflexive feminist point of view, she analyzes the intersectionality of class, race, nationality, and gender in Israel. Her study of the immigration experience and the coping mechanisms of women immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and Ethiopia, and of migrant workers from the Philippines, allows her to transform the stories of immigrants from the private to the political, to challenge many of the categories that we have become accustomed to associating with clearing, and to provide a valuable lesson about global emerging identities and gendered arrangements.
– Hanna Herzog, professor emerita of Sociology, Tel Aviv University
In her meticulously researched study, Tal Dekel offers a fascinating insight into works by women artists in Israel who are from the former Soviet Wedlock, Ethiopia, and the Philippines. Revealing their susceptibility to xenophobia and sexism equally well every bit religious and class prejudice, Dekel explores how these artists create works that offer compelling commentaries about these experiences and their transnational identities.
– Brenda Schmahmann, South African Research Chair in South African Fine art and Visual Civilisation, Academy of Johannesburg
Transnational Identities seeks to give power to the voices of immigrant ans migrant women artists whose experiences in an ethno-nation state are marked by diverse degrees of complexity and difficulties. As such, it is a strong addition to the word on contemporary life in Israel today, particularly the diverse stories of women migrants and their art. If annihilation, the book left me wanting to discover and relish more artworks by these pioneering women.
– Lynne Swarts, Studies in Contemporary Jewry
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