H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2018

BWBN · Black Women/Black Nationalism – Feminist Discourses on Nation-building in American and British Literature and Visual Arts

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-08-01 → 2018-07-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 455 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Сравняват се творбите на чернокожи жени в САЩ и Великобритания от 80-те години, за да се види как те разглеждат идентичността си. Това помага да се разбере как женският феминизъм и национализмът се преплитат в различните културни среди.

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Black Women/Black Nationalism – Feminist Discourses on Nation-building in American and British Literature and Visual Arts

The primary objective of this project was to compare two apparently unrelated phenomena: the Black Women Renaissance (BWR) in the US and the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in the UK, both of which gathered momentum in the 1980s. These two movements were sparked by a flowering of artistic talent of black women: writers in the US and artists in the UK. The project has demonstrated that these two constituencies of the black diaspora tackled similar issues: preoccupation with the political and cultural emancipation of black people in the West, engagement with their difficult history and focus on national, cultural and gender identities. The project investigated how the work of BWR writers and BAM female artists reflected the intersection of discourses of black cultural nationalism and black feminism. BWR and BAM female artists alike were concerned with the question of how to represent black and female diasporic identity in the context of national belonging, but this context was differently defined, as being a part of the postcolonial British nation (for Black British artists) or an ethnic minority group with a distinctive history and culture (in case of African American writers). The project used a nation-and-gender methodology to shed light on how black women associated with these two powerful movements engaged with black nationalist ideologies by embracing, adapting or disputing them. It demonstrated that, by comparison with BAM women artists’ treatment of gender, cultural and national identity, BWR treatment of these issues was far more conservative than many African American scholars tend to think. By juxtaposing American and British approaches to black cultural nationalism, it has added a European perspective to the field of American black studies and increased the competitiveness of the European Research Area in the field of transatlantic studies. The project has also called attention to the role of women in passing on national and cultural ideas.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

My research aims to make a significant contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Black women artists in the US & the UK. It will pose a polemical formulation of Black feminist literature and visual arts of the 1980s and 90s in light of postcolonial scholarship. These two decades saw a flowering of talent of Black British and American women: in the US they are described as Black Women’s Renaissance and in the UK as Black Arts Movement. Both movements came to fruition in the aftermath of civil rights and feminist struggles of black people in the US and UK. This project will investigate how the work of African American and Black British female artists reflected interaction and intersection of cultural nationalism and black feminism. It will demonstrate that feminist narratives and artworks of that period, usually not associated with black cultural nationalism, played a pivotal role in the continuation of indigenous cultural politics of Black cultural nationalism, which came to being in the 1960s and 70s in the US. During that period African American art strove to validate black culture as a culture possessing its own ideas and forms of aesthetic expression. The cause of BCN was propelled through the veneration of Black values, sensibilities, symbols, and rituals, which, as this project will argue, became also central to the identity politics of the artists of Black Women Renaissance and Black Arts Movement in the decades that followed. My project will demonstrate that this strategy of validating black culture, which was so empowering in the 1960s and 70s, ultimately turned to be counter-productive for the goals of black feminism, as it created a limited number of positions from which black women’s subjectivity could be articulated. UCLan with its world-class researchers in transatlantic studies (i.e. Prof. Rice) and Black Arts and black feminism (i.e. Prof. Lubaina Himid, a founder of Black Arts Movement) provides an ideal host institution.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITY OF LANCASHIRE · PRESTONКоординаторОбединеното кралство