Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-221) and index
Exiled histories: Holocaust and Heimat -- Corporeal cartography: women artists of the anglophone African diaspora -- Re-inscribing histories: Viet Nam and representation -- Embodiment: space and situated knowledge -- Performativity: desire and the inscribed body -- Becoming: individuals, collectives and wondrous machines -- Pleasure and knowledge: 'Orientalism' and filmic vision -- The word and the flesh: text/image re-made -- The place of time: Australian feminist art and theory
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""Meskimmon discusses the work of artists such as Deborah Lefkowitz, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cornelia Parker, Faith Ringgold, Mona Hatoum and Maria Helene Vieira da Silva, as well as other, less well-known artists from around the world. Focusing on historical, theoretical and aesthetic moments in the twentieth century such as the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the African diaspora, Queer Theory and cyberculture, Meskimmon illustrates the importance of women artists in rethinking dominant traditions and assumptions at times of cultural, political and technological change"--Back cover